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leadership。
https://www.facebook.com/SayNoToSCA5
SCA 5 is a law currently trying to be passed in the state of California and
subsequently other U.S. states. SCA 5 states that it is legal, and in fact,
MANDATORY, for state colleges (CSUs and UCs, in California) to discriminate
based on race during college admissions.
Since Asians, such as Chinese and Indians, usually get good grades, they
subsequently make up a large percentage of students admitted to public
colleges and private colleges alike. In order to “level the playing field
for all races,” SCA 5 seeks to set a limit to the number of Asians admitted
to public colleges and state universities.
Therefore, it makes it illegal for colleges to admit more than a set
percentage of Asian students. This means that even if there is an all-
rounded Asian student with a 5.0 GPA, but the colleges have maxed out on the
number of Asian students they can accept, a lesser qualified candidate of
another race may jump ahead of the Asian candidate and be admitted to
college. This ultimately doesn’t solve any problems, and simply makes it
more competitive among Asians trying to get into a good college.
Part of many Asian cultures is working and studying hard. SCA 5 looks to
penalize more than one ethnicity simply because of their culture. In the
words of S.M., who petitioned against SCA 5, “I believe that studying hard
and working towards our educational and career goals is, for many Asians, a
big part of our culture. SCA 5 is basically saying that because Asians have
this culture of trying hard in order to receive a good education, they
should be penalized for it. This is NOT right, and is racial discrimination.
A college education should go towards those who deserve it and work hard
towards it. Contrary to popular belief, Asians aren’t just ‘born smart,’
we work towards it just as hard as a smart Caucasian or a smart African-
American would. Vote NO to SCA 5!”
Other than being financially stable when they immigrate to the U.S., Asians
have no inherit advantage over other students. The solution to the problem
of too many Asians in colleges is not to ban Asians from being admitted into
these colleges, but rather to level the playing field another way, such as
by giving financial aid to less well-off families.
Teachers also play a huge role in leveling the playing field. Asian parents
are usually financially stable and well-educated, so their children can ask
them for help on homework and can concentrate on school. Other ethnicities
may not be as financially stable, and a student’s parents may not be as
educated; this is where teachers have to step in. For less-privileged
students, teachers must help the students, and make sure underprivileged
students can do just as well as others.
And this is not yet mentioning that SCA 5 is a racist law, and goes against
the freedom our country has worked so long and hard to achieve. As Barbara
Sun, who petitioned against SCA 5, says, “[...] it is unfair for me, as an
Asian, to receive less of an opportunity to be admitted into a college based
on my race. This is backwards and completely unreasonable, and these types
of things were thought to be eliminated a century ago, when racism plagued
the U.S. I am ashamed to be in a nation, which is supposedly the symbol of
freedom, equality, and equal chances, and have these types of things still
existing and circulating the governmental system.”
SCA 5 is not actually helping place other ethnicities–such as Caucasian,
Hispanic, or African American–at the same level as Asians, but is rather
discriminating against Asians to give other ethnicities an advantage. The
Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without
due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.”
This, stated in simple terms, means that under no circumstances is a person
to be discriminated against based on age, ethnicity, religion, gender, or
any other factor. This law, therefore, looks to cancel this part of the
Fourteenth Amendment, making it legal to “deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” It also looks to delete
part of Proposition 209, which, according to a government website, ”
prohibit[s] the state from granting preferential treatment to individuals or
groups on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin, in
the operation of public education.”
As Yui-Chi Rockower says, “We want to build the strongest country we can.
That means not penalizing good students by making it harder for them to gain
admittance to UC or CSU. If some “categories” of students are under-
represented in the admissions to our State Universities, isn’t it far
better to help them perform better, rather than lowering the standards for
admission, for those students?”
http://booksandbark.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/vote-no-to-sca-5/ | k****m
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