Worth noting that there have been national declines in math for older children during the pandemic that haven't really reversed. It has for younger kids though:

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt/2025/

The illusion that higher education is achievable without securing foundational mathematical reasoning is dangerous. It may just be another expense that accumulates opportunity costs, driving meaningless intellectual snobbery and labor-market mismatch.

Doesn't help they are in their late teens, early 20s and excepted to forego the screaming of their hormones to become a good worker drone for the same plutocrats filling them with media about wild college tours of bacchanalia while luring them to burden themselves with debt enough the poor earnest slobs will try to pay back so they enter the workforce and contribute to making those plutocrats wealthy while being too dull or domain specific to replace those plutocrats.

Yeah its freedom alright, freedom to chose coke or pepsi to swallow your pills then you better get back to work, otherwise you could be like that homeless man you stepped over coming in.

Mirror without Google logon: https://archive.is/OiezX

CA keeps leading the way in all kinds of good categories. Keep it up.

Isn't more important that the classroom is an accurate representation of the various groups applicants fall into? If 15% of the population identifies as a box of rocks, it's important that their diverse ideas are included. We're stronger with more diverse viewpoints..