The government-enforced lockdown of schools and months of forced remote learning during Covid have devastated the education of America’s future leaders. New data on ACT college admissions tests shows high school students’ scores have plunged to the lowest in over three decades.
According to data published by ACT, the nonprofit organization that administers the college readiness exam, the average composite score on the ACT test fell to 19.5 for the class of 2023, a decline of .3 points from 2022. The average scores in mathematics, reading, and science subjects were below ACT College Readiness Benchmarks, indicating fewer seniors than ever are ready for college.
“We are also continuing to see a rise in the number of seniors leaving high school without meeting any of the college readiness benchmarks, even as student GPAs continue to rise and students report that they feel prepared to be successful in college,” ACT CEO Janet Godwin wrote in a statement.
One of the best examples of a school system caught in a grading scandal is the Baltimore City Public Schools system. Investigative journalist Chris Papst of Fox45 News’ Project Baltimore has found dozens of schools with very few kids proficient in critical subjects on state exams despite some earning satisfactory grades.
Godwin continued, “The hard truth is that we are not doing enough to ensure that graduates are truly ready for postsecondary success in college and career. These systemic problems require sustained action and support at the policy level. This is not up to teachers and principals alone – it is a shared national priority and imperative.”
About 1.4 million high school seniors took the ACT test, about 21% of them met benchmarks for college subjects. And a shocking 43% met none of these benchmarks.
Readers have well-understood the Covid crisis and government lockdowns unleashed a ‘learning poverty.’
Last fall, Anthony Fauci told corporate media he had “nothing to do” with school lockdowns and the resulting learning loss among public school students.
But history shows Facui is a liar.
Fauci does it again. Claims he had NOTHING to do with the shutdowns. Do we have to play this compilation again? Apparently so. pic.twitter.com/73L2pDpABS
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) October 16, 2022
Meanwhile, some universities and colleges no longer require applicants to submit ACT and SAT standardized tests. This may be because the education-industrial complex understands the dumbing down of the youth – plus, the continuation of the EDU bubble is only made possible by giving false promises of future success to the younger generation while strapping them with $100,000 in student debt.
Also, there needs to be a nationwide discussion on ‘woke’ math, and gender pronoun studies – and how these subjects will produce tomorrow’s rocket scientists.
The worsening implosion of the public school system is more free advertisement for parents to consider homeschooling.
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This is what happens when you allow democrats anywhere near your children.
In the coming reckoning……………..this mentally ill rabble of faggot/pedophiles will have to be REMOVED.
Sincerely hope you are right.
The teachers union should be so proud. They keep failing our kids but they also keep demanding more money.
and they keep getting more and more money
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/incredibles-roughly-80-grades-given-harvard-are-range
“The Harvard Crimson on Thursday reported that 79 percent of grades given to Harvard students in 2020-21 were in the A range.”
Gotta brush up on my geography. I didn’t realize Lake Wobegon was in Boston
I find these numbers appalling! I’m not a genius or anywhere near, but when I graduated high school in 1972 I had an overall composite score of 30, with a 34 in science and math. My lowest was 28, and that was in language arts which I detested.
I’m not trying to brag, but trying to understand what in the world has happened to our youth! I know… just like our military, there’s been too much social engineering going on and not enough of teaching the basics. Government schools are not to educate, but indoctrinate. Mission accomplished. We now have illiterate kids that feel good about themselves, think they’re ready for higher education, but know absolutely nothing. They are ignorant and easily led.
If we just give our public schools more money the scores will improve next year. We will also have more crazy queers.
I scored a 28 on the ACT just coming out of high school. I was in the high-90 percentiles on everything but math, which I only scored a 48 on; I only took Algebra I in high school. So the math score torpedoed me.
I took the SAT after military school and made a 1420, so I may have learned a few things there (the difference being taking a standardized test at 18 and then another at 24).
nothing to do with the lockdowns at all
people are just stupid
I was a STEM teacher and the public school system cannot be fixed. The best thing to do is give all parents Vouchers for certified public schools that have no Affirmative Action, Diversity, Shot, mask etc mandates.
As long as there is no racial gap,i don’t see a problem with equal stupidity.