Lauren Boyer – The College Fix Nov 4, 2025
While studying at one of the “top” higher education institutions in the U.S., a new author recalls how he was described as “ideologically violent” for arguing in favor of standardized testing.
This incident and other concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education inspired him to write a book.
His book “Unbalanced: Memoir of an Immigrant Math Teacher,” written under the pen name “Yellow Heights,” raises concerns about the ideologically-driven focus of higher education.“Unbalanced” was released on Amazon and recently won a Maxy Award, an honor for indie and self-published books. The book also is partially available for free on the author’s substack.
Yellow Heights describes himself as a “former climate researcher, software engineer, investment manager, and high school math teacher.” He also is a first-generation immigrant from China and father of two. He writes under a penname and requested anonymity due to concerns about political and job discrimination due to his views.
“This book recounts his Kafkaesque experiences at education school, where he was labeled a white supremacist simply for asking questions,” according to the book’s Amazon page. “He shares firsthand accounts of teaching math at a public and a private school, offering a panoramic view of the issues surrounding wokeness, coddling, and the lack of accountability in education.”
The College Fix spoke on the phone recently with Yellow Heights about his book, his experiences going back to college to become a teacher, and his views of the current American education system.
After working as a software engineer and manager at Microsoft, he said he decided to go back to college in the late 2010s to become a math teacher. Although he did not name the school, he said it was one of the top 10 education institutions in the U.S.
Yellow Heights said he wanted to teach math because “I just take a great joy in seeing other people learning math and find math interesting. I want to basically make more people see the beauty of math and also the practical side of it.”
Around 2020, his experiences at college grew increasingly concerning.
Once, he said he and a fellow classmate asked some “learning related questions” only to end up “being labeled white supremacists by the instructor and the students.”
In another case, after the George Floyd protests, he said one “very kind, very well intentioned teacher” encouraged the students to continue class after giving them about 20 minutes to mourn — “and she was attacked. She was accused of lacking empathy at all and she was made to cry.”
Another incident occurred when Yellow Heights defended standardized testing. “I didn’t say it’s perfect. I just said we probably need some objective assessment of learning outcomes and we can improve it rather than just say it’s … evil itself.”
In response, the author said he was called “ideologically violent.”
As for how he would like to change the education system, Yellow Heights said, “I see three main issues with education right now.”
“The first one is ideology…I learned very few things about how to teach, but every day I was taught how to be an equity teacher,” he told The Fix.
“The second one that I see is there…is almost a culture of fragility for students. It’s an imbalance between supporting students and also challenging them,” the author said, adding that teachers can become “afraid to challenge” students.
The third issue is “a lack of accountability” for “student learning outcomes.” Teachers assess students themselves but lack access to outside assessment, like standardized test scores or previous grades, he said.
At first, Yellow Heights wasn’t planning to write a book. He penned some essays he “didn’t really publish” because, as he told The Fix, “I was still planning to hold on to the teaching career.”
On his decision to self-publish, he told The Fix: “The traditional publishers I contacted all turned me down. I understand…the industry is not doing well…[and] I have no prior credentials or experiences. Also, some seem to take issue with the topic I’m writing about. It’s rather sensitive.”
The author shared more information about his writing process. “I was trained in a lot of subjects — engineering, economics, geography, … education — but I was not trained in writing and also English is not even my first language so writing the book hasn’t been very easy.”
“But once I decide to write it, I learn as I do … With both of my careers, I was learning while I was doing and I was doing very, very well. In fact, that’s kind of a signature of my career…I’ve never had a computer science degree but I was working very well at Microsoft on software engineering … I think learning is really something that stimulates me.”
Yellow Heights took writing courses, hired “several professional editors,” and revised his book based on the feedback of friends and “a very large body of beta readers.”
“It took me one year to finish the book mostly and one year to really revise it,” he said. “… I think it’s actually a good thing [it took so long]. If I rushed it, it wouldn’t be as good.”
The book was endorsed by two scholars—Sarah Williams who serves as director at Sophie Hicks Agency and is a faculty member of the Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford University, Exeter College, and Wenli Li, an economist and lecturer at Princeton University.
Regarding the Maxy Award, the author said it “gave me a lot of pride and also it’s an affirmation as well and encouragement because I’ve written from a unique perspective as an immigrant…[and] I’ll sometimes wonder if my perspective is not widely shared…by an audience outside of my immediate community.”
“Also, I think the book has been selling very well…I was very proud that some of those friends who were not even very close to me after reading the book…[became] such strong advocates.”
He shared a story about one teacher who wrote a positive review of his book, which she prefaced with: “I wanted to write a bad review and I wanted to stop reading this several times because the tone was so sharp…I’ve been a teacher all my life…I believe it’s a very good book and I recommend to…study it.”
As for what’s next, Yellow Heights hopes to become a teacher again. He currently is battling some health issues.
And “I think I may write another book,” he said.
This article mirrors the experience of our good friend and former maths teacher, Simon Smith. He likewise was persecuted for being a member of a legally constituted political party. I look forward to his contribution.
Ruination is just around the corner for all of us, I’m afraid..Nonetheless, I raise my glass of Jameson’s in honour of the exceptional Mr. Smith. Cheers, Simon!
Since the goal of the Zionist-Commie Overlords is Nonwhite Supremacy & the substitution of the white race (Germanic-Celtic-Slavic) with billions of wogs & robots– traditional ‘western’ (white) concepts or standards of ‘education’ are passe & meaningless.
“former climate researcher, software engineer, investment manager, and high school math teacher.” He also is a first-generation immigrant from China and father of two.”
That’s it?
Anything else?
Had to cover up the fact it was written by AI with a fake personal background.
i like this ‘mr. crowley’ guy
He immigrated from China but he is a white supremacist!
Almost 200 years of Pink Floyd’s ‘another brick in the wall’- against whites.
@ mya
Indeed ..a sino white supremacist immigrant named appropriately..Yellow Heights… he may as well be called Yerro lites.. or too long wong..
most of the lol ‘articles’ to be found on the unterwebz presently are chump bot drool…can you really imagine a china man, the ultimate materialist..leaving behind his corporate sinecures to help retarded blacks and mexicans….except in some woke routine on an LLM ..
well.. hehe..
Thanks Andyay…I’ll pay you later mate…. 🙂
Yes, I did read the article…
Becoming a teacher in the British education system was the worst mistake of my life. The second worst was smoking that I gave up thirty years ago. I scarcely ever enjoyed teaching and looking back, I believe overindulgence in beer was something I used to relieve the stress. I still enjoy psoriasis from my time in teaching…
There may be other stressed white collar workers in their thirties, say, who have yet to grasp the irrelevance of material reward when there is the price of stress to be paid. I’m glad I have no offspring and just as glad that my material position is such that I’m divested of any female steerage in my life. I find the nagging of the microwave and the washing machine as much external “encouragement” as I can cope with – and I even resent their beeping when they want me to see to them. I retired to the forest a long time ago…
I think the anonymous author reflects the thoughts of many state employed teachers. But maybe many more are system apparatchiks. It surprised me he thought taking a year over a book was a “long time”. I’m coming to completion of a work that has taken me eight years; God willing it will be published within months…Maybe as another poster as suggested, the projection of his memoirs may be more than just a one against the many narrative…
I understand TPTB are about to teach young folk how to spot “fake news”…
I accept bitcoin, Simon. Otherwise, gold will do.
Not sure how he — if he really exists — did it, but it’s obviously fake. I think the point of his book is not what he claims, that woke America irrationally enforces its destructive ideals on everybody.
His real point is that a Chinese immigrant can easily be an American-style conservative, so smart as to quickly learn how to perform at a high level in disparate occupations, and can quickly become better at English (though he modestly denies it) than the average American high school grad. How long has this Chinese man been in the US? Who sent him here?
All that talent, and he settled for being a school teacher? He loves math but wants to work with it every day at only a basic level? He endured woke harassment in his own education programs because he loved the idea of teaching in America’s woke schools? He gave up other jobs that routinely pay two or three times what a schoolteacher gets, jobs which he did well, although he has a family to feed?
I have more questions: did he ever graduate from an American high school? From an American college with a math or education degree? Much is implied here, but I want to see the facts behind the claims.
rape is an everyday tool of the IDF men women and children
https://jellyfish.news/rape-of-palestinian-men-by-idf-israeli-security-forces-habitual/
The Left fight only a Race War and will not let any information emerge that shows Whites to be naturally more intelligent and worthy of higher positions; they do anything to cover up that fact
Another woke gem:
“Math is rayciss”
Anything even remotely related to Didn’t Earn It, er “diversity, equity, inclusion”, is just more abject degradation, another pimp-slap with a big rubber dong to those who put in the effort. Whatever sniveling sack of rat shit called advocacy for standardized testing “ideologically violent” should be subjected to a vigorous taste of the real thing.
I will never forget how my hometown of New Orleans had the opportunity to rebuild after a devastating widespread natural disaster. Scores of new schools were built to replace those destroyed, and legions of do-gooder fresh young teachers from around the cuntry flooded in with dreams of making a difference in a city with a majority black population and the severe dysfunctions associated with that race. In no time flat, countless idealistic teachers who had migrated in were beaten, raped, and even murdered, and the sparkling new schools turned to shit-holes again. Those sorts of things did not happen in the schools in the whiter neighborhoods. It’s a real mystery….must have been that “ideological violence” at work…
LOL…
It’s all performative.. because they really couldn’t give a fuck about educating the swine, it’s just a ruse to agitate the broth*..
This fella, a supposed software engineer for very micro soft, had to go back to college to learn maths note, maths not math…so he could teach remedial’s how to count dime bags in their slum…
I can’t really see much of a future for them..or their victims… or educational warrant officers who were software engineers for that matter..
*the only special schooling is when you are like Wittgenstein and Oppenheimer.. very special…if you get my gist..
I think I get your gist, chesterton.
Well, actually, I’m sure I do – but please don’t underestimate the British Grammar school tradition.
Grammar schools encouraged working class kids, like Simon and me, to better ourselves and provisioned us with intellects, capable of confronting our more esteemed peers, with confidence And perhaps with a somewhat haughty disposition, (an inverted snobbery,) borne of the knowledge that we were a match for any Old Etonian or any scoffing prefect from Harrow, Westminster, Winchester or King Henry VIII’s school.
Mortarboards and gowns? My pinky white arse.
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