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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can totally understand why these tech companies rather hire H1B (foreign educated tech workers) or even outsource the jobs.

Even the discussion here show people naive about the need for solid STEM foundation in education.[/quote]
There's not much connection. Presumably, those getting 4 year degrees should be trained. It is the fault, then, of universities, not the k-12 system.[/quote]

4 yrs of university can not make up for a poor k-12 foundation, and that is exactly the point of the UC professors. it should not be their job to teach the missing foundation. [/quote]
huh? What kind of revisionist trash is this? The UCs have always had people from all walks of life, who all did not receive an elite foundation. You can 100% start off on shaky territory and build yourself up to a competent professional; in fact, that is how much of my peers at Berkeley got through their engineering degree! It's so sad how much people here want to trap poor people into worse conditions, worse schooling, and worse opportunities.[/quote]

Nah not the poor but the under qualified[/quote]
You don't have to pretend like you are being in anyway open to [b]accepting poor people[/b]. We get it. You were pretty crystal clear that you are antagonizing poor people. Just saying "underqualified" doesn't mean much when I know you think the issue is the expansion of admissions towards lower performing high schools. [/quote]

Great keep distracting the issue from the actual problem. Typical tactic [/quote]
Tell me how the "actual problem" doesn't just coalesce to people from low income backgrounds. What profile do you mean then when you say "low performing?" I am just trying to keep us honest and real here. [/quote]
The profile they're referring to is a student of any income group and any race that is unable to demonstrate mastery of basic middle and high school mathematics.

There are plenty of poor students who are high-performing, and they deserve to have the opportunity to shine without needing to be hyper-savvy to whatever the current EC metagame is.[/quote]
Can you identify high income students that come from low performing schools? There are not that many magnet programs in california, leveling the playing field. The idea is to uniquely harm poor students who don't go to the few magnet schools around. Reminder that SF Has 1, yes ONE, magnet high school. This idea that there's a hotbed of opportunities for young, low income students who are high performing is mostly a myth.[/quote]

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