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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need to take the problem up with the California public school system. There seems to be a lot of lower income student bashing on here so I want everyone to think about what is likely going on. The students that are being accepted from weaker low income schools are doing great against their peers and are probably near the top of their class. In theory, a student who does well at any public high school should be well prepared for that state’s flagship universities, but that clearly isn’t happening. There seems to be a massive disconnect between public school standards and collegiate standards.[/quote]

Yes and no.

CA public school districts are motivated by funding being tied to graduation rates. Local communities do not want high percentages of high school drop outs roaming around committing crime. They have no incentive to boost rigor. It’s also a fallacy that math instruction is better and more rigorous in wealthy high performing school districts. Any MCPS parent that went through Curriculum 2.0 knows this! Many CA schools have IM which is bad as 2.0, although it doesn’t have the 30% error rate on county provided materials that MCPS achieved, lol. The difference is that parents in wealthy districts teach or have their kids taught math outside the public school. The problem isn’t unique to CA though it is more apparent as UCs have held onto rigorous math requirements.

UCs are very aware that they are intentionally recruiting sub standard student. They have access to CA testing data that they choose not to use in admissions but review at an institutional level. This is a directive by the Regents. UC funds a program where the schools target lower economic, Latino or AA schools and coach kids into the UCs. The coaching is simply making sure the schools target lower is coding courses to align with A-G to avoid a negative state audit and tagging the kid so the individual schools will admit them knowing the fill the needed race/income bucket. It’s a brilliant way to use “recruitment “ in lieu of affirmative action. The majority of these recruits fall below proficient on basic state testing. [/quote]

What's the goal for those students after graduation? What you describe is basically treating college an extention to K-12 (the cheaper day care).[/quote]

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