The class of 2023 had the worst ACT performance in more than three decades, according to newly released data from the nonprofit that administers the college admissions test.
Why it matters: The scores are the latest indication of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on education, with academic performance and test scores declining at all levels. The 2023 cohort was in its first year of high school when the pandemic began.
This generation probably realizes that college is an overpriced scam and humanity is probably fucked, so the test is irrelevant.
That doesn’t track. Why pay money and schedule a date to do poorly on the ACT? Should the scores not go up if only the people who know they are going to college take the test?
At my high school, everyone was required to take the ACT. It didn’t matter if you were planning to go to college or not.
Obviously if you force people to take the test then the averages will go down…
This class did a big chunk of their highschool through the pandemic didn’t they? I imagine they probably are a bit behind because of it.
Did it go from 20.5 to 19.5? I think we’ll survive this.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I haven’t been particularly impressed by the results that an already dumb populace has achieved recently in America. So America getting even dumber doesn’t particularly bode well…
We ought to be concerned about the numbers even if there’s not much we can do about the kids entering adulthood.
The plan is apparently working. Dumb people make better conservatives.
