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Originally posted by baltassoc
It is clever how the UC and UT systems have managed to take advantage of the utter failure of those states to effectively desegregate primary and secondary schools to create effective stealth affirmative action programs.
ETA: And if you don't think those programs are being labeled affirmative action, or quotas, or preferences, you aren't listening to parents whose kids finished in the top 25%, but not the top 10% at [insert public high school serving some wealthy suburban enclave here].
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Yes parents complain, but there is no concerted political effort to end them. These regional quotas have never been a hot political issue. At least in Califonira. There is no political concerted effort to end them because they are fair. If you think kids going to a certain school have an advantage you can always send your kid to that school. In addition, a minority kid from a wealthy family can't take advantage of the system either.
There is a huge difference between a regional quota and a racial quota. Often the results may be similar, but one is infinitely more fair and has much less of a negative social impact.
