CRUELTY DISGUISED AS COMPASSION: We knew students were unprepared, and we sent them on to fail. “It’s no surprise to Elizabeth Statmore, who teaches at San Francisco’s Lowell High, the largest single feeder to the UC system. Every year, she finds herself teaching very basic math — fractions, the distributive property, exponents and roots — to her high-achieving students, she writes in Voice of San Francisco. These holes in their knowledge will sink them in college STEM classes.”