Ninety-eight select Black undergrads have been selected to join the incoming freshman class at a public university, University of California Los Angeles. Ninety-eight. This is the lowest number admitted to this public university since the early 1970's. The University said it is troubled by the trend and is open to suggestions. One of those publicly backed laws a few years ago prevents them from considering race in their admissions, and they admit to having turned many away as not meeting the criteria.
The Black Civil Rights Gentry have predictably come out and demanded the university bring more in anyway, that the university go back and re-assess those rejected applicants. And so just out of the gate, the discussion looks rigged to frame an education debate outside of ever discussing the state of, direction of, purpose for schooling in the US. Just so, we won't discuss the provocative things in these high school graduates they are letting loose on the streets, in the public name.
We cannot change our schools. Since we are the Greatest Country in the World, why should we? This is the brain-dead logic of an old US Civil War general. Technology has changed for better or worse in Britain's Queen's 50-year reign. At the start of her reign, she could not have imagined being able to eat her cornflakes from tupperware containers. Now she is said to enjoy them very much this way.
Our public schools are stuck in the Industrial Revolution [but so is the British monarchy!] where they no longer just miseducate our children, they are also making mules ... I mean JACKASSES of them. Rather than look at this horrific state of affairs, some want UCLA to re-assess its entry requirements.
We've been at this junction before. Richard Rodriguez, who somewhere must be penning something on this matter, one hopes, which will be ignored, one hopes not, explains what happened at the genesis of the affirmative action movement, circa 1968. Would it be numbers [bean counting, critics later called it] or would it be reforming a bad system that harmed most poor children, Black, white, Latin, Native, Asian?? Rodriguez explains in his HUNGER FOR MEMORY memoir the civil rights hegemony chose Numbers, which guaranteed that those Black children least affected by the ravages of white racism would be culled from the ghetto and placed - alone - in white schools ... where they would exist in some kind of limbo land. The Blacks danced and whites sighed with relief. Limbo meant those Blacks wouldn't go passed Human Resources Captains ... for godsake, don't let them near the Bank!
Our school system, which educator Marva Collins said was a Soviet plot done to ourselves by ourselves without Soviet direction to stupify generations of US children and guarantee that while the USSR had to change, the US ... well, we would remain in the Industrial Age and cause the inevitable fall to be from a higher ledge.
Nobody look down, please!
Don't think the other 4702 undergrads who got in to UCLA are any better off. These kids are schooled dumb but have benefitted from SAT preparation classes at $500 a session.
Los Angeles schools are the worse I have ever seen. People ask me if I think about returning to teaching, but all I need to do is look at the useless social trash these schools are making of a generation of beautiful human souls. Why would I contribute to the Mission of making young men and women socially and economically inept, let alone incapable of getting through the doors of a public university? Fifty percent of the minority kids are reported to not make it through the system. The LA Solution? Build MORE schools.
Isn't General Motors and Ford, the Laurel and Hardy of MBA's, falling ceremoniously apart from adding woe to their misery by producing more recallable steel boxes no one wants to buy?? I guess as GM goes ... but this is a punch line.
The United States slides ever so gently into becoming an international joke. We shall be lucky to pick cotton for the Chinese - the we being the graduating class of 2010 at UCLA, that is.
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