“Officials from City University told the news station that 79.3 percent of graduates, or 10,700 students, who arrived to take a test to get into community college last year failed and were required to relearn basic skills that should have been taught in high school.”

So this was a measurement of only those HS graduates who applied for college and took the entrance exams. What percentage of HS ‘graduates’ of the New York Public Indoctrination System do you think didn’t plan on going to college and therefore didn’t take CUNY’s test? And would those other students likely be from the bottom of their class, unmotivated to attend college or convinced they would probably not be able to graduate?

As bad as these numbers are, they are only measuring the tip of the iceberg. So sad.