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Liberal "Equity" Experiment Crushes UC Math Standards
San Francisco Chronicle reports what many saw coming: UC Berkeley math professors, joined by over 800 faculty, are blowing the whistle on the disaster caused by scrapping SAT and ACT requirements in 2020. The move, pushed hard by progressive administrators chasing racial quotas and "equity," has left incoming students woefully unprepared for college-level work.
Data from UC San Diego paints a brutal picture. Freshmen unable to handle basic high school math have skyrocketed 30-fold. Seventy percent of these struggling students sit below middle-school math skills. That's roughly one in every twelve UC students now derailed before they even start, blocking them from STEM classes and real degrees.
Grade inflation, pandemic excuses, and fuzzy high school transcripts created the perfect storm. Without objective tests, universities flew blind into this mess. The professors are now demanding standardized math and science testing be brought back by 2027 as a bare-minimum reality check.
This is the predictable failure of liberal ideology in action. Obsessed with lowering standards to engineer equal outcomes, they ignored merit, readiness, and basic competence. The result? A generation of students set up to fail, wasted taxpayer dollars on remedial classes, and eroded excellence at flagship public universities. Diversity theater over actual education. California families and future innovators pay the price while the equity crowd shrugs and demands more of the same. Time to kill the experiment and restore sanity.
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On March 18, 1871, in the aftermath of France’s crushing and humiliating defeat in the Franco Prussian War, radicalized elements of the National Guard seized control of Paris, denied the authority of the French government and army, and established a 92-member Commune Council, which they declared to be the legitimate government of the city. The Paris Commune (as it was popularly known) would control the city for 72 days.
Upon taking control the Commune immediately began implementing its program of labor reform and secularization. They ordered the reduction of rents, reduced workers’ hours, prohibited child labor, and authorized worker takeover of factories belonging to owners who had fled the city. The French tricolor was replaced with the Socialist red flag and the Vendome column with its statue of Napoleon was pulled down and destroyed. The Commune eliminated all religious holidays, closed 26 churches in Paris (or in some cases converted them to socialist meetinghouses), and arrested over 200 priests and nuns.
Meanwhile the French army, slowly regathering strength, began gradually advancing on Paris. The Commune’s leaders desperately tried to mobilize the Parisians to resist, but relatively few were willing to go to battle against the army. The army began its final push into the city May 21, commencing what has become known to history as “the Bloody Week.”
Although many of the Communards fought bravely, typically from behind barricades on the narrow Paris streets, the army steadily overwhelmed the defenders. Seeing that their cause was going to be lost, the Communards began burning public buildings, destroying monuments, and burning the homes of prominent supporters of the government. The Tuileries Palace, the library of the Louvre, the Palais de Justice, and the Hotel de Ville were among the places they destroyed. Attempts to burn the Notre Dame cathedral and the church of St. Eustache were unsuccessful, although the later was badly damaged. Meanwhile the army was summarily executing all Communard prisoners known to have been engaged in the fighting, and the Communards summarily executed over 100 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris.
By the evening of May 27 the army had secured nearly all of Paris. The last significant Communard stronghold, in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, fell on May 28 and the 166 Communards taken prisoner there were lined up against a cemetery wall (now known as “Communards Wall”) and shot.
It is known that 877 French Army soldiers were killed during the Bloody Week fighting. The total number of Communard casualties has never been determined with certainty and continues to be debated by historians. Most estimates place the number of Communard dead at approximately 15-20,000.
Subsequent communists and anarchists have cited the Communards as inspirations and Leftist groups commemorate the Commune each year in a ceremony at Communards Wall, on the anniversary of the executions there.
The image is Alfred Darjou’s depiction of the execution of prisoners at Communards Wall.
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