These students may not even attain minimum University of California standards of eligibility. The result is a school whose culture is defined by intense competition and high stress. Tram Vo-Kumamoto's parents pushed her to attend Lowell. I was one of those students who excelled in middle school and did not excel at Lowell. Vo-Kumamoto went to City College of San Francisco and then transferred to U.C. Berkeley.
Parents say cheating, truancy, and depression are endemic problems at Lowell.
Asian parents should not be concentrating their target at Lowell. To him, these sentiments are short-sighted and selfish. He worries the plaintiffs' success will fuel growing Chinese American intolerance against other minorities, especially blacks. The Chinese American Democratic Club does not care about those students. They only care about their own students and that's what this is all about.