Even though our education system got more than we asked for, you can see the that the students today are feeling the recession take its toll. It has been reported that college admissions have been cut down, for example University of California San Diego was rumored to have only admitted 9% of applicants, whereas last year it was 40%. Many students are resorting to community colleges and then transferring after their general education, lowering the transfer rate in a few years. So freshmen acceptance rates are down, transfer rates will be down in a few years, what's happening to our higher education system? We need those funds to enter the system and we need it now.
The graphs above were obtained by me when I went to interview our own HLPUSD district's resource manager Gary Matsumoto and Norman Hsu. As you guys can probably tell, our district is actually holding out okay, but it is due to the large amount of stowed away savings HLPUSD has, that's why much of our school functions are still performing, unlike many others whereas teachers are being laid off left and right, classrooms are jam-packed, and resources are running low.
But we can only last a year or 2, maybe 3, like the graphs above said, with cuts, we can stay afloat a little longer, our students can have a comfortable education for a little longer. Because of our savings, we don't have to lay off as many teachers, even though they will have to divert some of the financial resources to other places from projects, so things will be moving around, until the Title 1 105.9 billion dollars comes.
Until then, we will just have to wait for the Cavalry. Until then, college acceptances will be more competitve, since it won't have enough resources to admit the normal rate of students before the recession hit. Although the Private Colleges will not undergo much acceptance rate changes since they are privately funded, not like UCs, where they are funded by the state. Many LAHS and perhaps students around the state and nation are on the verge of tears, seeing previous generations enter college only to have them shut the door in their faces. Seeing how 2009 is, is 2010 going to be worse for our siblings and the generations after us?
President Obama, is help really on the way?
