Ninety percent of City University of New York (CUNY) freshmen that graduated from New York City public high schools can’t do basic algebra, which is middle or early high school work, and two-thirds couldn’t turn common fractions into decimals, which one should master in elementary school.
I don’t need to make the racial point here — as long as you’ve been reading this medium, you know what I’m thinking. But this story proves two things otherwise: One, New York City public high school diplomas (and elementary school diplomas) aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, and two, the supposed end to open enrollment and the supposed return of admissions standards to CUNY ten years ago were just window dressing, Rudy Giuliani.
