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- Subject: Re: Minimum standards for math "competency"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.232300.22455@massey.ac.nz>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:23:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.162755.9636@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Steven E. Landsburg) writes:
- >
- > In article <By6E16.JFx.2@cs.cmu.edu> jmount+@CS.CMU.EDU (John Mount) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov23.140653.13522@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
- > >|> Perhaps you haven't visited a technical university lately. I recall
- > >|> professors complaining that most of their students are oriental, and
- > >|> where are the American kids? I'm not sure about the statement above,
- > >
- > >I trying to imply you said the above (I even left a bit of your "I'm not
- > >sure about that"). But I think this kind of racist crud is intolerable-
- > >a good number of the Asian students ARE American kids.
- > >
- > I applaud the denunciation of the racist crud. But it doesn't go far
- > enough. So what if they AREN'T American kids?
- >
- I think the point intended is that American schools are not producing
- enough good university students. Whether or not you agree with this,
- there is nothing racist about it. The fact that there are still able foreign
- students is praise to the education system in other countries and evidence
- that it is possible to produce students of a sufficient standard. I have no
- idea how many Asian students ARE American, but if the situation is
- similar to New Zealand, you will be getting a lot from Asia. The aim
- was not to complain about getting too many of these, rather, it was to
- complain that the American education system is not producing enough
- local students. Again this is in no way racist - it is a simple statement
- of the perception of the writer. (This may be fact or fiction).
-
- It seems to me that any mention of race seems to raise a howl from
- the politically correct. Perhaps the politically correct readers can
- try to read the context and not just pick out isolated sentences.
-