DEI Forced Harvard to Teach Remedial Math

Harvard is not cheap. Attending as an undergraduate costs $86,926 per year. On top of that, Harvard vacuums up staggering sums of taxpayer money, despite receiving $billions per year in donations and sitting on an endowment of $57 billion. But at least the students are learning something besides LGBTism, Critical Race Theory, and how to hate America.

The New York Post reported last spring:

The school’s math department is providing a new scaled-back math class for freshmen who are apparently arriving on campus lacking “foundational skills” in high school math basics like geometry and algebra.

Why is it that students at America’s most prestigious university need to take high school level math courses? DEI is why.

Had these students studied for the SATs — which, according to the College Board website, tests them on four “areas of math that play the biggest role in college and career success: algebra, advanced math, problem solving . . . and geometry” — they wouldn’t need Math MA.

Math MA is what they call the remedial course.

Instead, many of them probably bombed on the math SAT or skipped the whole thing altogether, taking advantage of the fact that Harvard scrapped the standardized testing requirement during the pandemic.

As with a lot of moonbattery that was pushed through on the pretext of Covid, the lack of an SAT requirement outlived the virus.

Harvard was capitulating to the pressure of those who insisted standardized testing is a vestige of racism and argued that scrapping the process altogether would advance equity.

You don’t need to know math if you claim membership in an identity group lucky enough to be “marginalized.”

You probably don’t need to pay the full tuition either. No doubt taxpayers end up picking up much of the tab for DEI students.

Harvard hauls in its mountains of money by banking on its prestige — which it has been frittering away for the sake of moonbattery. The school was forced into a course correction:

To Harvard’s credit, the school announced in April last year that it is finally bringing back standardized testing requirements for the class of 2031.

However,

While Harvard has seen the light, elite colleges like Columbia, Princeton, Vanderbilt and Duke are still clinging to their test-optional policies.

Let’s hope these other pricey schools offer remedial math too.

On a tip from RoCar.

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