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Angry parents crush race-quota revival
UT San Diego ^ | March 18, 2014 | Steven Greenhut

Posted on 03/21/2014 6:28:08 AM PDT by artichokegrower

SACRAMENTO — When my family moved from northwest Ohio to pricey Southern California, we could afford an entry level house but couldn’t also spring for private-school tuition for the kids. So we scoured the test-score databases, looking for those neighborhoods where home values were reasonable and public schools were tops.

Given the focus on schools, it will surprise no one that we settled in a city with a majority Asian-American population.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: california; carolliu; lacanada; lelandyee; ohio; prop209; proposition209; sanfrancisco; tedlieu; torrance
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"As lifelong advocates for the Asian-American and other communities, we would never support a policy that we believed would negatively impact our children,” said Sens. Ted Lieu, Carol Liu and Leland Yee, in a letter last week to Assembly Speaker John Perez


Could you imagine the reaction if some white California legislators made a similar statement?

1 posted on 03/21/2014 6:28:08 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Birds of a feather flock together....................


2 posted on 03/21/2014 6:29:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

“When my family moved from northwest Ohio to pricey Southern California,”

I have heard of stupid moves, but if you did this, you deserve what you get.


3 posted on 03/21/2014 6:33:37 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: artichokegrower

Well, they went to all that effort, and that’s not fair.

What about all those families that can’t [won’t] go to all that effort? Don’t they deserve good schools too?

/libthink


4 posted on 03/21/2014 6:35:09 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: artichokegrower

One thing I remember from law school admissions was it was strictly a numbers game, no interview, a simple formula: your LSAT score and your grade point average from college then they put you on a list and picked the top 75. If someone turned them down, they went to number 76. No race card, no legacies.


5 posted on 03/21/2014 6:36:32 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: artichokegrower

Same with the finals, you took a test under a number, the professor didn’t know if you were black or white, male or female, your name your initials, nothing.


6 posted on 03/21/2014 6:37:49 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: edcoil

Sometimes you have no choice. I have had to move because of jobs to places I didn’t like..................


7 posted on 03/21/2014 6:40:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: artichokegrower
Likewise, this quota debate misses a more important focus, which should be on helping Latino, African American and other students get the quality education they need to qualify for the best schools on their own.

and in the words of our good friend, William Shakespeare via Hamelet, "aye, there's the rub."

8 posted on 03/21/2014 6:45:00 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Red Badger
Sometimes you have no choice. I have had to move because of jobs to places I didn’t like

especially those in the military... there are a lot of US Marines in Southern California...

9 posted on 03/21/2014 6:47:47 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Red Badger

Lots and lots of Asians have moved into Orange County in Southern California and the high school where my children went has gone form 8th in the country to below 50.

In the sports area, they tend not to do anything outside of golf and tennis teams so fielding a winning football team is almost impossible.


10 posted on 03/21/2014 6:53:11 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: artichokegrower

That’s the thing...it’s a no-brainer that it’s okay to deprive some high achieving white kid based on quotas. But try to go there and gee all of a sudden you’re a racist.


11 posted on 03/21/2014 6:57:57 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: edcoil

It’s not the football team you should be worried about............................


12 posted on 03/21/2014 7:00:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: artichokegrower

Women and minorities hardest hit.


13 posted on 03/21/2014 7:00:19 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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When, according to the AD, “half the student body does grass”. Sports keep the boys out of the drug scene, (sadly only mostly)


14 posted on 03/21/2014 7:14:41 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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From the article "Nevertheless, Hernandez has called Prop. 209 a “complete failure” because it led to a less diverse student body."

No apparent concern for academic achievement at all! Diversity is the end-all be-all of the agenda, dumb everyone down to the same level. I doubt Hernandez could even understand how his comment gives the game away, much less the ultimate repercussions of his philosophy.

15 posted on 03/21/2014 7:17:31 AM PDT by jimmyray
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To: DouglasKC

That’s the point. Could you imagine what would happen if white California legislators made the comment “we would never support a policy that we believed would negatively impact our children,” concerning something such as illegal immigration? They would immediately be branded with the “R” word.


16 posted on 03/21/2014 7:24:03 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower
Could you imagine what would happen if white California legislators made the comment “we would never support a policy that we believed would negatively impact our children,”

I hope that one day whites will stand up for their children.

17 posted on 03/21/2014 7:31:50 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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San Diego Democratic Sen. Ben Hueso said in published reports that “Prop. 209 creates a barrier for people of color to access higher education.”

So he’s saying that basing college admission on academic ability creates a barrier for people of color? He sounds like a White Supremacist.


18 posted on 03/21/2014 7:36:56 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: yldstrk

One thing I remember from law school admissions was it was strictly a numbers game, no interview, a simple formula: your LSAT score and your grade point average from college then they put you on a list and picked the top 75. If someone turned them down, they went to number 76. No race card, no legacies.


That was a LOOONG time ago, right?


19 posted on 03/21/2014 7:38:44 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: edcoil

“Sports keep the boys out of the drug scene, (sadly only mostly)”

One of the “stars” on our HS football team was stupid enough to be smoking weed on the roof of the high school(next to the ventilation system). He got caught and word was he was going to be missing some games-—it never happened. Sports ARE more important than consequence.


20 posted on 03/21/2014 7:53:32 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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