Greetings, Dear Reader,

Time for some medicine, and this kind won’t go down easy.

THE ‘LOST GENERATION’ CONUNDRUM

If we Americans emerge from all this intact and regain our health as a society, I’m convinced historians will look back at the first quarter of this century and call its product the “lost generation.”

Unfortunately, the obstacles we’ve set before us are so high and so deep that the only way is through. The casualties will mount. They will in fact be astronomical. Nevertheless, it is highly important that once we chart the course, we take it.

Let’s start with the recent UCSD report on education. In short, one of the most prestigious university systems in California (and so, the world) has been matriculating students who don’t know basic math. They can’t divide a fraction in two. They don’t know how “to start” a word problem. They cannot read beyond a middle school level, never mind read critically.

In the process of reporting these deficiencies out, there was another stunning discovery: Many of these students had 4.0 grade point averages in public school.

How did we get here? The hard left “equity” movement that captured education at every level. In its (almost always hyper-racial) focus on equivalent academic outcomes, it progressively and then seemingly everywhere all at once managed to remove basic tenets of the educational process. Literacy, advanced literacy. Basic civics. Basic math. Advanced math. 

It wasn’t just an assault on merit, as most of us were apt to point out at first. It was a deliberate removal of basic intellectual processes and obstacles one must navigate to achieve milestones and credentials. Instead, they just got the credentials.

Again, the new way of equity has infected every level. From elementary school all the way up to grad school.........

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