
Justin Skycak
@justinskycak · Feb 13, 2026
This sounds like a joke, but it's not:
– 1 in 12 incoming UCSD freshmen don’t know middle school math,
– and the remedial math course was too advanced,
– so UCSD had to create a remedial remedial math course,
– and a quarter of the students placing into it had a perfect 4.0

unusual_whales@unusual_whales· Feb 12, 2026Generation Z college students are reportedly arriving on campus struggling with basic reading comprehension, even difficulty processing full sentences, per FORTUNE.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Idiocracy
12:04 AM · February 14, 2026 · 112.9K views
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