California’s education system really should be viewed as a bigger scandal than it is.

In case you missed it, a damning report released last month from the University of California, San Diego laid out how underprepared many incoming freshmen are at one of California’s most prestigious UCs.

“Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort,” they noted.

These are students who, on paper, were top performing students in high school, with average math GPAs of 3.65 to 3.7 on a 4.0 scale.

As professors at UCSD noted in a recent commentary in the San Diego Union Tribune, “UC San Diego stands d

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