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Excessive price of school
hurts college students, households
I’m for pupil debt reduction, however this system introduced Wednesday doesn’t handle the astronomical price of school.
Having three youngsters in school throughout the pandemic I used to be astounded at why the schooling was the identical given that schools have been delivering distant schooling. My daughter began her senior 12 months at UC Berkeley yesterday. I phoned her and inquired, “So this might be like freshman 12 months, with all the pieces in individual?” She stated, “I solely have one in-person class and it’s a lab.” So for $40,000 a 12 months, absolutely loaded with room, board, tuition and costs, my daughter has one class. She may very well be commuting and dwelling at house. What sort of school expertise is that this?
Universities have discovered to economize with distant schooling, and cost greater costs whereas having their price construction propped up by means of billions in COVID-19 reduction. This reinforcement cycle is hurting college students and the households supporting them.
Andrea Bloom
Pleasanton
Racist housing coverage
attracts little discover
There’s a non-public, off-campus housing co-op close to UC Berkeley that has declared that “White company usually are not allowed in widespread areas.” I’d wish to know why this has not been reported on in native media. I truly needed to discover this out from the NY Put up through Reddit. Additionally, why have our native authorized institutions not taken this to coronary heart?
You may make certain that had the phrases Hispanic, Asian or Black been substituted for the phrase White within the referenced rule that the ACLU and a number of DAs could be screaming foul and submitting go well with. Within the referenced article a renter of blended race had his White father denied entry.
ACLU, Truthful Housing, and many others – the place are you? If discrimination is incorrect, isn’t reverse discrimination is incorrect as properly?
Robert Drury
Fremont
Column twists local weather
statistics into lies
Re. “IRA gained’t scale back inflation or have an effect on local weather change,” Web page A7, Aug. 25:
Often, Marc Thiessen’s writing is, to steal a phrase from his August 25 column, “statistically indistinguishable from” lies. However in that very same column, he comes alarmingly near stating an necessary truth.
Thiessen quotes local weather skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, who says, “Even when the U.S. went … to net-zero … it will scale back international temperatures in 2100 by simply 0.3 levels F.”
Sure, it’s necessary to know that the USA can’t remedy the local weather disaster by itself. However does that imply to Thiessen (or Lomborg) that we must always do nothing? In fact not. We have to act, as does the remainder of the world, and as a number one polluter, our motion ought to assist spur everyone else to do their share as we at the moment are doing ours.
A 3-degree discount could be very useful and solely 10 occasions Lomborg’s unachievable American contribution. With others following the American instance, the world can get there.
Merlin Dorfman
Livermore
