More on my daughter, Berkeley, and my take on the whole thing. In order to get into a UC school , especially if you're not a member of a protected class based on race, gender, gender preference, lack of gender, international citizenship, or some other thing that moves you to the head of the line ahead of the rest of us, you had to really work at it. Once there, in order to complete an advanced degree in the allotted time frame, you go to class every day, study into the night, have very little of a life, inhabit the various libraries, and really beat the bushes to maintain the all important GPA. You don't have time to involve yourselves in campus protests, demonstrations in support of whatever dumb thing that professional instigators dream up, none of which has one thing to do with your major, and when you finally graduate with a degree from the college and again from your major, you emerge like a hibernating organism once again into the bright sunlight of spring.Most of the protests, the problems that make the news, etc. are spawned by non-students. If you instigated a protest that incited a riot causing injuries, disruption of the school calendar, and hundreds of thousands in damage,and they arrested a bunch of you and processed you, and it was discovered you were currently enrolled there, how long do you think that would last? After expulsion, would you ever get into another UC school, or anywhere else for that matter?My daughter then got a teaching credential from a UCLA program, then went back up to the bay area near where she lived, and aced one of her first interviews. Not too many times do they tell you that you are hired during the initial interviews. She's in her fourth or fifth academic year of teaching , and is completing her Master's degree. I'm very proud of her. Her brother graduated from UC Irvine about ten years ago, got his credential and his Master's in education, he's been teaching for about six or seven years. All I can say, having a houseful of intelligencia such as this makes me wonder where they got it.
