um..... what????

[Nitt1300]

HS administrators don’t want to lose funding and want to avoid sanctions so their goal becomes failing as few students as possible. As a spouse of a HS teacher, I hear stories all the time of students who are not only failing, but never even show up for class. The last couple weeks of school is always a parade of parents calling the principal with sob stories and threats of lawsuits and students asking how they can bring their 0% for the school year up to a passing grade. The vast majority of those students and pushed through with passing grades and the teachers essentially have no say in the end.

That combined with the test optional policies of colleges is a very bad combination.

https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/08/15/uc-berkeley-sat-test-blind-admissions-math-scores/

I bet the Chinese aren't doing that. The future isn't so bright that we have to wear shades.

 

[BobPSU92]

I bet the Chinese aren't doing that. The future isn't so bright that we have to wear shades.

Except in Happy Valley:

 

[Lion84]

SAT range of accepted students at UMich: 1360-1530
SAT range of accepted students at UMD: 1390-1530

SAT range of accepted students at PSU: 1200-1400

So now they are Maryland Men not Michigan Men.

 

[LionJim]

So now they are Maryland Men not Michigan Men.

Dang, the cat’s now out of the bag.

 

[rigi19041]

I bet the Chinese aren't doing that. The future isn't so bright that we have to wear shades.

The left is more I terested in diversity than success.

 

[SkiSkiSki]

This is why I believe this is the participation trophy generation coming home to roost. There's been an entire generation of kids raised to believe that as long as they just show up they're good. no need to work hard. And in turn they've been fed that line of garbage through school and eventually into life. These are the kids that think they can get a degree in anything they want, regardless of ROI, and if they don't find they job they THINK they are entitled, they just move back in with mom and dad.

sad sad times

good times have made soft men, and now soft men are making hard times.

I recently overheard a phone conversation between my spouse and her adult daughter who is about 30 years old and whom I didn't know until after she graduated college. Stepdaughter, "I think parents should be responsible for their children while they are alive. Kids didn't ask to be born."

Mind you this stepdaughter and her spouse were both DINKs making somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 each until said stepdaughter took a mental health break and then agreed to take a severance package shortly after returning to work and receiving a less than stellar performance review.

I weep for the future of America.

 

[SkiSkiSki]

I took Astronomy and the professor said to the class, for those that think this is going to be easy think again. So definitely not pass or fail in that class.

Did anyone say, "Nah, I am really good at astrology."?

 

[BobPSU92]

So now they are Maryland Men not Michigan Men.

Penn State Men meh

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

I recently overheard a phone conversation between my spouse and her adult daughter who is about 30 years old and whom I didn't know until after she graduated college. Stepdaughter, "I think parents should be responsible for their children while they are alive. Kids didn't ask to be born."

Mind you this stepdaughter and her spouse were both DINKs making somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 each until said stepdaughter took a mental health break and then agreed to take a severance package shortly after returning to work and receiving a less than stellar performance review.

I weep for the future of America.

my friend matt walsh weeps with you (us)

 

[SkiSkiSki]

I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math

"Before 2020, Berkeley administered a diagnostic exam to incoming Calculus I students. Between 2018 and 2020, 71% of roughly 2,200 students tested as ready or nearly ready for calculus. At the bottom of the distribution there was almost nobody. Just 0.14% tested below basic algebra.

After UC adopted test-blind admissions, the picture changed dramatically."

Berkeley Calculus I readiness, before and after test-blind admissions​