UC professors are begging to bring back the SAT. They dropped it in 2020 for “equity.” Now their new students can’t do middle-school math. One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below middle-school level. Professors are reteaching fractions in engineering classes. High school 4.0s mean nothing when the kid can’t add ½ + ⅓. This is what happens when you replace standards with slogans. China doesn’t do equity cosplay. T hey run the gaokao and produce the talent. We lower the bar and wonder why we’re falling behind. Stop the BS. Reinstate the tests. Competence is not oppression.