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the purpose of my high school was to enrich students' critical thinking skills and racial literacy to be able to use those skills on a college campus/in the real world.

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I went to a visual and performing arts high school. There was stratification among the art “academies” and within the programs. Students were designated as being on a path towards an arts career or not, and their quality of education differed.

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i think the main purpose of my the school i went to for most of high school was social mobility

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The purpose at my school was social mobility, in that they tried their best to push us into college so that we could continue our education and be prepared to enter the workforce in the future.

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I feel that my school tended to focus on the success of individual students. My school offered IB and AP classes to help the students have a better chance get into college. The only thing is if you weren't taking these classes the staff wouldn't put in any energy to helping you succeed.

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"The promise of a cheap, quality education is slipping away for the working and middle class, for immigrants, for the very people whom the University of California's creators held in mind when they began their grand experiment 144 years ago."

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I went to school in Oxnard and I would say they heavily emphasized the upward mobility social mobility aspect of education. We had programs like AVID which focused on getting students to a 4 year university and there was less of the other two aspects present.

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My schools academic programs facilitates social mobility and academic achievement regardless of race, gender, or class.

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The speaker from UC Davis spoke about the privatization of schools as the new reality, saying that she doesn't see public universities going back to being state funded. This is interesting to me because as we have learned, the pullback of state funding isn't what caused the shift to privatization, and yet it is being accepted as the final say in the death of public education.

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I went to a public high school in the Bay Area that used loopholes to gain a bigger budget, as to provide "better" schooling to wealthy people in silicon valley. There was a strong emphasis on getting into a "top ten" college/ university and students were expected to go on to be high earners.

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The start of the slow burn of the California higher education system began with an ideological shift to more anti-tax and small government movement

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Break our creativity and set us up to idealize the normative college career path. Big emphasis on making sure we were prepared to do well on standardized tests to secure funding. Little emphasis on making sure students were prepared for the real world.

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the purpose of my high school was to market itself as a "liberal" and diverse high school with a great sports departments and ap/ib courses to attract the wealthy people of berkeley and surrounding cities.

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The main purpose of education at my high school was to get people to graduate. Unless you were an AP/honors/teachers favorite it felt as though no one wanted to talk to you about a track or path after graduation and you weren’t offered scholarship opportunities or spoken to on college. Wasn’t until the day we walked stage that community college students were recognized, which was about half the graduating class.

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The cost of Harvard (17,000) and Cal State East Bay (24,000) was shocking to me.

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30 years ago, states funded 70% of total costs of higher public education, now they only fund 25%, leaving the rest of the burden on the students and families.

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The main purpose was to prepare students for the real world. They prepared students to go to college whatever that looked like for each students goal or prepare them for a trade school.

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The main purpose was to prepare students for the real world. They prepared students to go to college whatever that looked like for each students goal or prepare them for a trade school.

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Social mobility —> catering to men of the majority and not as beneficial to other groups. From my own experience as a woman, I do not feel as thought my high school valued my education as much as my male peers’. (Belittled women for their clothing because it was a “distraction” for male counterparts, took time out of the classroom as repercussion for clothing, women’s sports teams rarely recognized for accomplishments and because of this, women were less likely to receive scholarships in comparison to male athletes.) My school had many resources to prepare students for higher education, however, it felt as though certain groups were more prioritized over others

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My school was definitely oriented toward college prep so that everyone could get a high powered job even though the coundelors did make themselves available to help with any path a student wanted to pursue. It also heavily promoted critical and rational thinking so I actually think it had a decent balance of all 3.

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There was this uncomfortable focus on micro issues and a detachment from the overall problem of lack of transparency on all levels of decision making.

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Defunding of education in California started way before the 2008 financial crisis.

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whether or not the uc system can survive as a public institution

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whether or not the uc system can survive as a public institution

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i thought this question Judith Butler kept coming back to was interesting and important. i would agree that everything else kind of rests on that

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Public education funding has been gutted, with more and more burden placed on students to pay, as administrative staff get raises

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The main purpose of my education was democratic equality and a little bit of social efficiency. My school made an effort to try to get everyone to college but they didn’t judge students who didn’t go to college. Everyone learned about history and this included genocides, apartheid, white supremacy and the truth about American history.

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The primary purpose of my high school was to ensure that all students got accepted into at least one four-year university, or else they couldn't graduate.

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my high school is more aligned with the idea is social efficiency. I think this is mostly because they were very focused on vocational future for the students. They offered very little help for students that wanted to continue to a four-year.

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The purpose of my high school was to promote the social mobility of a select group of honors/AP students. These “advanced” students were given great educational opportunities and much more resources then the rest of the students. While my high school was fairly diverse ethnically and economically, the students in these honors/AP classes were usually whiter and in higher income brackets than the rest of the student population.

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My high school seemed to prioritize individuals who were more academic. They would highlight those who did well in school and seemed like they would look down on those who didn’t take APs or fit in the category of a “good student” as lower than them. It made the school seem very competitive.

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The purpose of my school was based around democratic equality. They gave, and made sure every student had the opportunity to a equal education. AVID, AP and Honors classes were offered to every who wanted to take them

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California higher education "is being starved to death by a public that thinks any government service - even public education - is not worth paying for" - Barack Obama

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They want more educators, nurses, doctors, etc... in our society yet they are making it impossible for students to afford a higher education.

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They want more educators, nurses, doctors, etc... in our society yet they are making it impossible for students to afford a higher education.

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"The promise of a cheap, quality education is slipping away for the working and middle classes, for immigrants, for the very people whom the University of California’s creators held in mind when they began their grand experiment 144 years ago. And don’t think the slow rot of public education is unique to California: that state’s woes are the nation’s."