To the editor: Columnist Anita Chabria denounces UC college’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 could go back to using the SAT and ACT for admissions. Here’s why that doesn’t add up,” July 8). The truth is that California’s public greater training system already accommodates that range by way of CSUs and group schools.
UCs are purported 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 tutorial status with out the requisite tutorial 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, fallacious to imagine taxpayers’ partial funding of UCs entitles taxpayers’ kids 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 training to anybody, which they can not do if they have to settle for everybody.
Peter Thomas, Los Angeles
