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An “embarrassingly” high percentage of freshmen in the California State University system need remedial classes in math and English, you report (“Nearly Half of CSU Students Need Remedial Courses,” Jan. 6). As a professor at UC Irvine, I direct your attention to the disturbingly high numbers of such students at our even higher level.
Still, The Times’ remedy is directing such students to the community colleges. This is a classic example of treating symptoms, not disease. Only direct pressure to the K-12 system, as Cal State trustee Ralph Pesqueira proposes, can affect the cause: a system that spends twice the dollars per student that private schools do, while producing a worse product.
GREGORY BENFORD
Laguna Beach
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