Last time I checked, The California economy, and the money the California government likes to spend, is based on Silicon Valley, the success of which is based on brain power and the brain drain. So having drawn all this brain power here, why does the legislature let the UC tell the brilliant South and East Asian workers, too bad, send your kid to Georgia or the Texas for college, and pay the out-of-state tuition there while you're about it. But the Democratic party in California is basically a monopoly, and one that does not particularly care about Asians..
“Meanwhile, about 20% of the applicants are granted a second-chance review. The latter reviews are conducted by the dozen or so senior admissions staff. You’ve got to understand that they are the ones who have the most contact with people like the UCLA deans and chancellors. Consequently, they are the ones, I believe, who receive the most pressure to admit minority students. Whatever the case, the data show that they are the ones who are granting the most racial preferences. This is one of the best-kept secrets of the UC system: The increase in minority students was not caused by the holistic system. It was caused by the second-chance reviews.”
I think this is about socioeconomics and the advantages you can give your child with money and also with education.
My anecdotal experience: my kids straddled the idiotic math sequence delay and also the foolish in house pre k to 11 math curriculum SFUSD created.
When I paid for an Algebra I class for my daughter when she was in 8th we had a huge advantage not just being able to afford it. Both me and my husband are electrical engineers. ( My son is one now too). My son was taking Algebra 2 while she was taking the external Algebra I class. So the three of us were her tutors and we didn't need to rely on outside help.
The podcast Sold a Story about the Lucy Calkins reading curriculum also exposed the hidden complexity. Parents with resources who saw their kids could not read paid for external help. The ones who didn't have that advantage were left behind. So the gaps widen but what isn't taken into account is who is getting outside help or taking outside classes like Kumon.
The curriculum is a huge problem. Both in math and language arts. The elementary curriculum is not teaching foundational skills. Not teaching phonics. Not teaching multiplication tables. I swooped in when the kids were little and taught them long division. Forced the memorization of multiplication tables.
This gave them an advantage as they grew up and went to college. One is now an electrical engineer and the other a neuroscientist. And a lot of this is because we understood what was missing from the early education curriculum.
Last time I checked, The California economy, and the money the California government likes to spend, is based on Silicon Valley, the success of which is based on brain power and the brain drain. So having drawn all this brain power here, why does the legislature let the UC tell the brilliant South and East Asian workers, too bad, send your kid to Georgia or the Texas for college, and pay the out-of-state tuition there while you're about it. But the Democratic party in California is basically a monopoly, and one that does not particularly care about Asians..
The UC Still Uses Race-Based Admission Decisions https://californiaglobe.com/fr/ucla-students-protest-lawsuit-alleging-that-uc-still-uses-race-based-admission-decisions/
“Meanwhile, about 20% of the applicants are granted a second-chance review. The latter reviews are conducted by the dozen or so senior admissions staff. You’ve got to understand that they are the ones who have the most contact with people like the UCLA deans and chancellors. Consequently, they are the ones, I believe, who receive the most pressure to admit minority students. Whatever the case, the data show that they are the ones who are granting the most racial preferences. This is one of the best-kept secrets of the UC system: The increase in minority students was not caused by the holistic system. It was caused by the second-chance reviews.”
I think this is about socioeconomics and the advantages you can give your child with money and also with education.
My anecdotal experience: my kids straddled the idiotic math sequence delay and also the foolish in house pre k to 11 math curriculum SFUSD created.
When I paid for an Algebra I class for my daughter when she was in 8th we had a huge advantage not just being able to afford it. Both me and my husband are electrical engineers. ( My son is one now too). My son was taking Algebra 2 while she was taking the external Algebra I class. So the three of us were her tutors and we didn't need to rely on outside help.
The podcast Sold a Story about the Lucy Calkins reading curriculum also exposed the hidden complexity. Parents with resources who saw their kids could not read paid for external help. The ones who didn't have that advantage were left behind. So the gaps widen but what isn't taken into account is who is getting outside help or taking outside classes like Kumon.
The curriculum is a huge problem. Both in math and language arts. The elementary curriculum is not teaching foundational skills. Not teaching phonics. Not teaching multiplication tables. I swooped in when the kids were little and taught them long division. Forced the memorization of multiplication tables.
This gave them an advantage as they grew up and went to college. One is now an electrical engineer and the other a neuroscientist. And a lot of this is because we understood what was missing from the early education curriculum.