[quote=AN][quote=ocrenter][quote=Blogstar]Asians are historically not good at lobbying and should be given preference.

This debate should be focused on third grade students and younger. By the end of third grade , young ones should be ready for 4th, or else they are disadvantaged. Waiting until they are college age to rectify disadvantage is where all the trouble comes from.[/quote]

that’s the problem people don’t seem to get.

you get a guy that’s well suited for SDSU and bump him up so he can get to UCLA and he’s going to get burnt. Everything in college is graded on a bell shaped curve. So you pretty much just guarenteed he’ll be lagging behind the curve in college, and probaly eventually drop out.[/quote]+100[/quote]

It happened at my school. The first two years was a weeding out process for engineering. A lot of folks couldn’t keep up.. No amount of tutorial, help, coaching etc, could make up for the deficit accumulated prior to entering college.

It actually was counter productive. Because some of these folks barely graduated, and once graduated barely had any sort of decent position lined up…

I said this before as well. Solution of trying to lower the bar entering college isn’t helpful, unless one plans on lowering the bar once in college as well. If that happens, it doesn’t help unless employers lower the bar for employees. If that happens in the domestic companies, it certainly won’t happen on any sort of global company that is not domestic..And then you need to deal with global competition.

The way to solve this is to address disparity while the kids are young(er)…Just about every other modern nation that values education does this.

I don’t have any issues with parents from social-economic disadvantaged homes even sending their kids to “better” public schools via some voucher, or specialized charter school/system and would even be a proponent of helping fund those schools for social-economic disadvantaged children…At least parents who are actively seeking sort of a commitment demonstrates they are willing to put thought into improving one’s kids’ situation..At least at that point, everyone is more or less at an equal playing field…