To the editor: Columnist Anita Chabria denounces UC school’s current exhortations to reinstate standardized assessments as out of contact with “actuality” and “frequent sense” as a result of they’re insensitive to the various backgrounds and aspirations of California’s college students (“UC might return to utilizing the SAT and ACT for admissions. Right here’s why that doesn’t add up,” July 8). The fact is that California’s public larger schooling system already accommodates that variety via CSUs and group schools.
UCs are speculated to be public equivalents to elite non-public analysis establishments with selective admissions. A fixation on UCs embodies the elitism Chabria allegedly deplores: She needs educational status with out the requisite educational excellence.
She rightly calls for that top colleges give college students an equal alternative to realize that excellence. And, sure, the SATs and ACTs are flawed. Chabria is, nevertheless, improper to imagine taxpayers’ partial funding of UCs entitles taxpayers’ youngsters to all however assured admission. These are public universities; they serve the pursuits not of personal households, however of the general public as an entire..
We pay taxes in order that the UCs exist to supply an excellent schooling to anybody, which they can not do if they have to settle for everybody.
Peter Thomas, Los Angeles
