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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UC San Diego admitted 26 students from Lincoln High School in San Diego.  Only 12 students in the entire senior class met California's basic high school math standards on their CAASP test.  Only 4% even pass an AP exam.

UC San Diego isn't getting the best and brightest from California.  It is getting the best and brightest from each high school.  The problem is a large proportion of their high schools have extreme low performers and no high performers.

So here we are. College students who are barely literate and with math skills of 5th graders.[/quote]

You are blaming the brightest students who are getting such an awful education instead of the public school system. Imagine if your child were taking AP calculus and after the first quarter the school unilaterally decides to cancel the AP calculus class and places your child in a ceramics class? That's the education Lincoln High School students have been getting. It seems like it is a joke but it really happened!

https://voiceofsandiego.org/2020/09/16/when-a-calculus-class-abruptly-became-ceramics-at-lincoln-high/

The article explains, [i]"But Zuri Williams told me that midway through her daughter’s senior year, she came home with some odd news. The Advanced Placement calculus class she was in had been abruptly canceled after the first quarter. She had applied to the most prestigious colleges in the country, all of which would be expecting her to finish the classes in which she was enrolled.

Lincoln High, though, canceled calculus and put Zora Williams in a ceramics class instead.

Soon the prestigious Wellesley College informed her that it had put her on the waitlist for admission. Her confidence plummeted, and she was confused about the options the district laid out for how she could finish the class."[/i]

So then what happened? Well the bad publicity resulted in the district reinstating the class the fourth quarter.

[i]The story of the class is a sad one. At first, 21 students signed up for it but after a few weeks, 13 had dropped it. The school decided to cut it off. The eight remaining students could have tried to finish the class online, through the district’s iHigh program. [b]The school also pledged to try to make it work in the fourth quarter of the year after it recruited more students in the meantime.

That ended up happening, and 21 total students finished the class in the fourth quarter.[/b]

Barrera said the school, though, should have allowed those eight students to continue with the class without delay.

“I think once a course begins, schools and the district have an obligation to allow students to complete the course,” he wrote in an email.[/i][I]

Realistically there is no way you are going to really be prepared to take an AP calculus course if you go in person the first quarter, you get placed into ceramics or drop the course then the fourth quarter you resume the class. So of course those 21 students are going to test poorly on a math placement exam even though they somehow got credit for a calculus class. [/quote]
Sounds like a well funded school, so this is a parent-engagement issue.[/quote]

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