Remedial editorial protest
The Daily Sundial, the Cal State Northridge
campus newspaper, used its voice to support a California law that will
disqualify freshmen students from the university if they do not pass any
necessary remedial education classes.
The editorial made no mention of any specific
ethnicity, but even the chairman of the Chicano studies department claims
the editorial is biased against Latinos.
A Chicano student group and Gerald Resendez,
chairman of the department, said that because 75 percent of Latino students
last year needed remedial education, the newspaper's opposition to remedial
education indirectly targets Latinos at CSUN.
The fact is that university students should
not be doing high-school level work.
Our universities are too crowded and we
don't need students spending extra time to obtain the education they should
have received in high school.
For these people to be upset and feel that
the Sundial is attacking their ethnicity is childish and unwarranted.
There was no direct mention of any ethnicity,
just a blanket statement that remedial students don't belong at the university
level.
It has nothing to do with the color of
their skin or their ethnicity.
It sounds like a case of hurt feelings
and a sense of shame that is really behind this outrage.
With 75 percent of CSUN's Latino freshmen
in remedial education, who wouldn't be ashamed?
We need to eliminate the need for remedial
education.
And to do that, we need to band together
to find a solution, not blow trivial issues out of proportion. |
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