Fix K-12 Schools And Diversity College Admission Preferences Will Not Be Needed

My comment to The Wall Street Journal article, "SAT to Give Students ‘Adversity Score’ to Capture Social and Economic Background: New score comes as college admissions decisions are under scrutiny" by Douglas Belkin | Graphics by Elbert Wang:

The focus on college admissions hides the true problem of the failure to teach in inner city, union run, government public schools. Without skills in basic reading comprehension, basic mathematics and logical reasoning (what SAT measures), students admitted through diversity will either fail to graduate college or gravitate to the easiest majors. While it is easy to blame environment and parents, standards to become a teacher have declined over the years. NYS teacher test has a score range of 15-75. The passing absolute score for certification for grades 1-6 is 46 (equivalent to 61 percent on a 100 based scaled); English and Math grades 5-9 and grades 7-12 passing absolute scores are 38 (equivalent to 51 percent). When our teachers are barely understanding the subjects they are teaching, how can our inner city, low income, disadvantaged kids be expected to learn to read and do basic math? Fix k-12. De-unionize to allow firing of teachers. Allow school choice. College admission solved.

Source for NYS Teacher certification passing scores.