UC San Diego said there is a 30% surge in new entrants who can’t do basic math. Want to bet they know how to protest though?
We are being dumbed down.
According to Inside Higher Ed, the number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a new report from the university’s Senate–Administration Working Group on Admissions.
One in eight students are below a MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL despite having a solid math GPA.
It sounds like they are inflating grades.
The number of first-year students in remedial math courses at the university surged to 390 in fall 2022, up from 32 students in fall 2020.
Professors discovered that students had knowledge on an elementary level in some cases.
In fall 2025, 921 students enrolled in one of these two courses—11.8 percent of the incoming class.
“This deterioration coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on education, the elimination of standardized testing, grade inflation, and the expansion of admissions from under-resourced high schools (DEI-ism),” the report states. “The combination of these factors has produced an incoming class increasingly unprepared for the quantitative and analytical rigor expected at UC San Diego.”
NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.
Within the UC system, the San Diego campus isn’t alone, but its problem is “significantly worse,” the report states. This is partly because the university has, since 2022, admitted and enrolled more students from low-income schools that saw greater COVID-era learning loss than other UC campuses, writes Higher Ed.
They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and… pic.twitter.com/86yKGQN7M2
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) November 11, 2025
BUT… they hate America/Capitalism, are Historically Ignorant and are reliable Socialist Voters.
As long as they know who to vote for what else matters?
This is nothing new.
When I attended UCSD in the 1980’s, a close friend of mine had a job tutoring in “summer bridge.” He was being paid by the state taxpayers to bring the best and brightest of California’s primary education system up to speed in the summer between high school and college so they could do university-level study.
I found this shocking as despite three years of University level German, having LIVED in Germany for that length of time, an associate’s degree all earned while on active duty for over 7 years, my first application was denied; I challenged that denial and was accepted for that fall class. I graduated Cum Laude with a dual major, Phi Beta Kappa, Regent’s Scholar every year of attendance (a $1,000 annual grant) and went on to medical school with an Army Health Professions Scholarship graduating in the middle of my class.
I did the work necessary to succeed, to excel, and only once attended a handful of study workshops through the student union volunteers.
No better self-indictment of failure was “summer bridge.”
College, University, is NOT for everyone. Egalitarianism (DEI) has destroyed the system of meritocracy President Trump alludes to when he says Americans don’t have certain skills necessary for the modern workforce. The system that brought us nuclear energy, cell phones, laptop comuters, satellites, rockets to the moon and beyond is now only producing legions Iand I use that word “legion” advisedly) of ineducable, unemployable professional protesters/rioters and ANTIFA scum willing to burn down cities because “justice.”
GIGO.
Note: UCSD hounded me for years to join the alumni association. I sent letters every year for a LONG time stating “ONLY if you remove the “Che Cafe” a campus eyesore devoted to the name of a mass-murdering racist psychopath.” Haven’t heard from them in over a decade now.
1 in 8. That’s just over 12% and you just know these students aren’t taking any challenging courses and, I’m betting, are getting government loans they believe they are not obligated to pay back.
The whole purpose of Common Core math was to remove one of the fundamentals of education from the childhood learning curriculum. Bush was and IS a pure Globalist/Communist, and fooled a lot of people.
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