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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is completely messed up is that in years past UC's would target the brightest students in the poorest neighborhoods to provide tutoring and outreach. Schools in poor areas also would cluster together the highest performing students so they were able to be challenged.

This changed a few years back and UC's and other grant programs changed to "open-access" programs where anyone who wanted to attend could. The shift became everyone should go to college so it isn't fair if only the brightest, hardest working, highest performing students at a poor school get singled out to get something that would help them prepare for a top UC. Everyone should have access to it. So the smartest kids get pushed aside.

Then at the same time schools started discontinuing honors classes and created "honors for all" classes. This really affects poor smart kids because now they are with the loser kids who don't even want to be in school and constantly disrupt class. They are often used as in class peer helpers for the lowest kids.

The worse offender is UC San Diego. UCSD created a high school called "The Preuss School UC San Diego" which is on the campus of UC San Diego designed to take low income students and help them prepare for rigorous colleges. Their math program is awful. They don't offer honors math classes. They don't even offer AP calculus - not even AB. Only a calculus class that isn't classified by the UC's as an honors level class. None of their math classes are. And the school starts in 6th grade. After the third year of being educated there only 13% of 8th graders can score advanced on the Smarter Balanced Test (the standardized test all CA public school students take). In 11th grade it is only 25%.[/quote]

My white low income son was not accepted into a college readiness program for FGLI students despite meeting the criteria. A Hispanic program manager took his time to think about it and decided against it. Some bullshit about lack of demonstrated interest was given. [/quote]

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