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« "Racism Did This:" Jason Arday's Uneducated Racist "Students" Learned One Thing From Him -- Just Blame Whites and The World Is Your Oyster | Main
August 17, 2026

Defund Fake "Education"

Why are we extorting money from taxpayers to take normal children and turn them into stupid and uneducated by completely arrogant mental patients?

Universities threaten students with investigations, disciplinary actions over 'deadnaming' Several U.S. colleges and universities, including CSU Northridge, the University of Oregon, and the University at Buffalo, have adopted policies that classify 'deadnaming' transgender students as harassment.

Deadnaming is the act of referring to a transgender- or nonbinary-identifying individual by his or her birth name rather than the name the individual currently uses after 'transitioning.'

...


If deadnaming occurs on campus, CSU Northridge states on its "Office of Equity & Compliance (Title IX)" website that if faculty or fellow students deadname or fail to use a person's chosen pronouns, hearings can be held following a report to the office.

CSU Northridge's website adds that "If a violation is found, discipline through the relevant counterparts will be discussed."

On a University of Oregon website, the public university's "Prohibited Discrimination and Retaliation" policy allows officials to categorize deadnaming as harassment. It specifies that instances qualify as harassment when there is "intentional or repeated deadnaming or misgendering."

...

Other universities, including private institutions such as Tufts University, also have policies on deadnaming and "misgendering" for students and faculty.

The University at Buffalo states on its "Preferred/Chosen Names and Pronouns" web page that it "recognizes that individuals may use a name other than their legal name to identify themselves."

Universities have time for this deplorable bullshit, of course, because they've done such a great job teaching students in the basics.

Oh wait, no they haven't at all, have they?

I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can't do middle school math

Since the University of California abandoned the SAT and ACT, thousands of faculty say it's admitting students who aren't prepared for the coursework. Will UC listen?

...

I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students. By the second week of the semester, I already know who is in trouble. Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school.K/b>

...


Before 2020, Berkeley administered a diagnostic exam to incoming Calculus I students. Between 2018 and 2020, 71% of roughly 2,200 students tested as ready or nearly ready for calculus. At the bottom of the distribution there was almost nobody. Just 0.14% tested below basic algebra.

After UC adopted test-blind admissions, the picture changed dramatically.
Berkeley Calculus I readiness, before and after test-blind admissions

ALEKS placement data shows 11.6% severe deficits and 71% near or ready in calculus. MDTP results show 33% severe deficits and 51% near or ready in topics passed.

...

The classroom itself changed shape.


Before 2020, most students clustered toward the "ready" end of the spectrum, with only a tiny tail at the bottom. Afterward, the middle hollowed out, and the weakest students became the largest single group. We didn't end up with one somewhat weaker calculus class. We ended up teaching two different classes in one lecture hall: one for students who were prepared for college calculus and one for students who needed remedial mathematics that nobody had scheduled.


...


The people arguing this test-blind policy on television, in committee meetings, and in politics do not stand in front of 700 students three times a week or grade a first midterm with a pre-curved D/F average.

We do.

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"The test-blind policy was a well-intentioned experiment," she wrote, "but the reality in our classrooms shows that it has failed." Admitting students who are unprepared, she warned, "sets them up for discouraging struggle. ... We cannot afford another cycle of administrative delay."

That last sentence is at the heart of this debate.

What's the worse that can happen?

Oh right, students might wind up Jason Ardaying themselves.


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