Posted on 09/29/2009 9:25:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
Cal State Students, It's Time To Stand Up
Faculty, staff and students at Cal State Long Beach stage a mock funeral for higher education last week. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Budget cuts are taking away the right to an inexpensive public education, depriving many of the right to move up.
By Hector Tobar September 29, 2009
I was invited to Cal State L.A. for a "Walk of Shame."
On a three-hour tour of the academic pride of L.A.'s Eastside, I met a laid-off sociology lecturer and saw overcrowded classrooms where students were being turned away from courses they needed to graduate.
I visited with a stressed-out librarian and counselor, both of whom described the effects of the latest round of budget cuts and fee increases.
"I've never seen it this bad," said the counselor, Larry Grijalva, a 23-year-veteran and graduate of San Diego State. "We can't even get kids into the remedial English classes because they're all full."
I like to think of Cal State L.A. and the 22 other campuses of the Cal State system as the workhorse younger siblings of the state public university system.
The richer University of California might win the Nobel Prizes. But it's the Cal State system that gives us most of our police officers, teachers, nurses, social workers and probation officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I’m a little confused. When was “the right to inexpensive public education” added to the Constitution?
Must have cut the “Women’s Studies” program.
Isn’t it AMAZING how liberals cannot/refuse to equate exploding college costs with liberal prof’s, unions, or policies???
It wouldn’t be in the Federal constimatushun but states can put all kinds of things in their own.
Yes, and I can probably figure out why. But I doubt he meant it to be funny.
lolol.
There is a theory of education called 'full body learning' in which failure is instantly reproofed by a sensi that smacks the student for failure. It may also be called 'body learning'.
It's remarkably effective.
/johnny
Ah, my beloved Buddhism!
Or Martial Arts!
Or Aikido!
“The funniest, and most telling, line of all: “We can’t even get kids into the remedial English classes because they’re all full.”
Yes, welcome to the Third World. Or, eh, California... Our nation has fallen apart.
There is some Zen in a properly functioning commercial kitchen. It's like a timeless dance. With a beginning and and end.
/johnny
The lie is right there. I know people who attended DIV 1A with no loans and no family assistance. Yes, they had the old VEAP program but that wasn't much. They are veterans. They worked hard and are now America's best. The Times is FOS.
Cal State is a great, (and inexpensive) university system. And considering the taxes Californians pay, theyve already payed for it.
I have a close friend who went to CSU Fresno. Her dad had walked out on her mom, and they werent really very well off, though she was a smart cookie. She couldnt have afforded private college, or even a UC.
So she took loans and went to Cal State, graduated with a much smaller debt burden than if she had gone to a Pvt school, and eventually became a doctor, specialising in emergency medicine.
Not getting into the public private debate, but Im grateful that CSU exists.
Tenure.
Do you have any idea how much better off America would be if EVERY ‘sociology lecturer’ was shut down???
The quote tells all “We can’t even get kids into the remedial English classes because they’re all full.”.
If they have not mastered Lower Education they have no business being in Higher Education. The vast majority are going to fail. All that happens is that more money is dumped into the system on lost causes.
“depriving many of the right to move up.”
Moving up isn’t a right. Particularly if someone else has to pay for your right.
I’m guessing just after “the right to move up” and just before “the right to health care”
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