Posted by BeachStorm on 9/30/2009, 10:39 pm, in reply to "Re: LA Times: "Cal State students, it's time to stand up""
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GoBeach,
This message was DodgerDarin.
I'm not calling you clueless.
BTW, I'm a child of Mexican immigrants, born and raised in southeast Los Angeles. A family of six kids with a family income of $28,000 (Thank you dad). Facing a life of gangs around me and a public ducation system whose drop out rate at my high school was 65%, affordable college education was my way out. I am ever so grateful for affirmative action and a system that allowed to get to get affordable higher education. We dont live in a cheap state so a CSU system that gives people from working class communities a chance at the american dream is deeply appreciative. So I believe in the message of the article. Its not about race, its about a chance to live the dream of why my parents choose to migrate to the USA. Si se puede!!!! (yes we can).
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: Clueless!! When I was 15 I worked and was the
: only person working in family. I gave all
: the money to my parents. A year later my
: dad got a job. Storm you don't know what it
: is to be poor and what you have to put up
: with just to go to school and live. I also
: worked when I attended college. If it
: wasn't for the scholarship our Uncle gave us
: I'm not sure I would have finished. When
: people move front and center to make
: statements about the cost of an education,
: please don't talk to me. I've lived it.
: Keep your head down and just keep plugging
: away and you will get there.
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: That article has nothing to do with race.
: Just
: because the writer name is Hector and
: students with ethnic names are quoted does
: mean its about race.
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: I'm sure you have a spanish surname but I
: get the feeling you are pretty much clueless
: when it comes to higher education for the
: working class or low income communities.
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: Hey Hector... kiss my ass essay. The race
: card
: has been flushed down the toilet. Quit
: reaching for it as it has been flushed out
: to sea and devoured by the small fish(es)
: holmes. I guess I'm able to say this only
: because I have a spanish last name...
: anybody else would be called racist.
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: I'm so sick of the owe is me card, stick it
: up your ass as it is an even playing field.
: The boy that cried wolf is even embarassed.
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: That's a good idea. Comm College for
: remedial
: classes.
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: I also think it's high time to re-invent
: college. Sitting in boring lectures where
: the professor talks at a bunch of students,
: especially the largest classes is old
: school. Use the Internet more. I learn more
: in a day now on the Internet than I did in a
: semester in a class. (only a slight
: exaggeration.) But seriously, life changes
: occur so fast and often now the Internet is
: a self-teaching device that is far better.
: Some of the traditional core classes can be
: done better with annimated teaching videos
: on-line. I used to have a psych professor
: who lit his pipe constantly. We counted 65
: lights in a 55 minute class.
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: Re-think, re-invent, make more relevant...
: save money.
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: I love the line where they quote the Cal
: State
: LA administrator as complaining that
: students can't get into remedial classes.
: Here is a novel idea, eliminate remedial
: classes, and raise the standards to
: eliminate freshmen who need remedial
: classes, let them start out and take those
: classes in Comm. colleges. This would help
: aleviate the budget problems; further, it
: might give HS students an extra bit of
: incentive to pay attention in class.
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: --Previous Message--
: Today's L.A. Times
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: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tobar29-2009sep29,0,3374430.column
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: Budget cuts are taking away the right to an
: inexpensive public education, depriving many
: of the right to move up.
: By Hector Tobar
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: September 29, 2009
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: Faculty, staff and students at Cal State
: Long Beach stage a mock funeral for higher
: education last week.
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: Read the rest at the link above.
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