[quote=no_such_reality][quote=FlyerInHi]BG, I’m not talking resale value of the toys. I’m talking prioritizing education over toys. All the toys over 2 decades can pay for a top education.
Lots of the foreign students you don’t like coming here… The vast majority of those families are not filthy rich; they just want upper middle class jobs for their kids. . Their families prioritize, and education is top priority. Same goes for many American families who value education.
Families who value education want the top schools, private and public. It’s not just the UC campuses, but UT Austin, university of Michigan, etc… It’s like people who like trucks want the badass trucks, or people who like American Harleys, or sports cars….whatever. We want the best brands and are willing to pay (money, time or effort)[/quote]
If you’re willing to pay then why are we funding it with tax dollars? If they’re willing to pay then let’s treat it like the business it is and real a profit. From the decades of investment te tax payers have made and channel than funding back to provide for the masses.
And I agree, I do have some resentment about the increased competition. But it isn’t about having to compete, it’s about having to compete where Lance Armstrong doping is the norm. Pop Warner coaches getting suspended over bounty programs for knocking players out, parents doing their kids mission project. And the use of tutors and kimono when it gets so prevalent that teachers adjust their curriculum assuming you are have at least one.[/quote]Agree NSR. My main beef with non-residents taking up CA university slots which should go to residents is that the vast majority of them never paid any taxes in this state (which, in turn, fund our university systems). They’re taking up thousands upon thousands of slots for resident applicants who didn’t get admitted simply because they pay less tuition. And at the UC, non-residents have been admitted in droves since 2011 under less stringest criteria than residents, according to the recent state audit.
If CA’s graduating HS seniors cannot get admitted to public university right out of HS (preferably one within commuting distance to parents’ homes), then they have no other choice but CC (for a publicly-funded college education). And completion of a transfer degree at a CC no longer guarantees admission to CSU/UC as a junior (esp a campus within commuting distance of their parents’ homes) …. the reason being that the bar of entry is now nearly 4.0 GPA (CC overall GPA) for locally-based, transferring-in juniors (at least to SDSU). Of course, it may very well be less for campuses located in CA’s “armpit” and its rural areas which don’t have a HUGE body of incoming freshmen from HS districts in their immediate areas which they offered admission guarantees to and they ALSO don’t have a HUGE amount of non-resident apps to consider (both from prospective freshman and transfers).
It’s not right to leave prospective qualified CA HS graduate-applicants swinging in the wind (rejected for admission) with only CC choices all the while admitting non-residents in their place! CA University systems are supposed to exist, first and foremost, for CA residents. Every qualified HS graduate who desires a public university education in their own damn state is entitled to one. I don’t care what anyone else thinks.
I have no problem with CA private institutions (ie Stanford, USC, the Claremont Colleges, Cal Tech, Pepperdine, etc selling ALL of their seats to the highest bidder from in state, OOS, OOC or even from Mars! That’s their perogative as CA taxpayers are not funding them in any way, shape or form.
