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Frank Xu, who lost his campaign for a seat on the Palomar Community College Board in the Nov. 8 election, said the state's failing school systems will lead to California's next generation's inability to write, read, and understand math creating a decline of overall competence, which he said would be a "disaster" for the entire society.
Xu, 44, who is the president of the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, a nonprofit fighting legislative attempts to reinstitute racial and gender preferences in government programs, made the comments on a recent episode of EpochTV's California Insider.
He blamed what he calls a decline in California public schools on the state's inability to hire qualified teachers, today's recent push by educators and the mainstream media regarding diversity, inclusion, and equity, the suppression of those who call those concepts into question, and what's known as "grade inflation," where students receive higher marks than deserved....