The University of California San Diego is a selective admissions college in the once-prestigious University of California system, with an admission rate of about 28%. So most of the kids who get in are at the top of their class in student achievement.  But now we learn that a shocking number of even these A students can’t do elementary school math.

Math 2 is UCSD’s remedial course for 1st through 8th-grade material.

This year 665 students (8.5%) are enrolled in Math 2, versus 0.5% as recently as 2020.

Another 256 are in Math 3B, which is high school remediation. Remember: these are kids who were almost all at the top of their high school class, so imagine how little all the other kids have learned.

The report includes some of the questions used to assess the Math 2 students and the woeful percentages of students that got them right:

This is the Newsom lockdown legacy – though we doubt many graduates from the public schools in some other parts of the country would fare much better answering these math questions.

Time to privatize the schools.