My apologies if this is already a topic I’m overlooking, but the Supreme Court ruled it’s unconstitutional to use race for college entry.
Thoughts?
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Good.
It didn’t take long at all for leftists to turn it into a weapon.
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I think it was a good idea once upon a time. I just think it’s run its course.
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Same. It was well intended in its time, but at this point it’s just race based preferential treatment.
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Yeah. It’s important to keep the argument in mind. They’re already diving back in to the 60’s and Jim Crow prior, neither of which have anything to do with the challenge brought against Harvard and U. Of North Carolina.
If im not mistaken (and I could be, im not an academic) colleges and universities used to reward academic success.
Under affirmative action If a group does too good as a whole, they are then punished?
Then theres the comoditization of it- we are to believe that in lecture halls with 200+ kids, they can’t make room for 201?
I haven’t read the argument yet, but I’m willing to bet both universities flew the coop from selecting top 10% applicants (over best GPA) and blatantly admitted or denied students based on race alone.
A good case to take up imo, as we seem to be leaving equal opportunity for “white males are bad, gibs me dat” in general. I’m curious where this goes with further legal challenges.
The corporate world is fucked. DEI has been the name of the game for years now.
Im just glad that my work involves weld testing, wherein if you don’t pass you have to go. No amount of DEI-ing will get anybody past that.
For now.
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The problem is when there are two competent candidates and one is selected because he’s not white, while the other is denied because he is. This is what’s happening in many corporations. In some cases a “b” student is even hired over an “a” student due to race and/or genitals.
It’s unconstitutional that not every kid receives the same standard of education.
I know it won’t happen, but I really hope this puts more pressure on making sure underrepresented minorities get a better high school education. I feel like that would require school choice to happen, and the Dems don’t want to give up their monopoly.
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Fixed it
Republicans are for school choice and charter schools. What monopoly on public education do you think they have?
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I predict Harvard will be 95 percent Asian in another 4 years or so.
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Hopefully it becomes 100% including the president.
On what basis?
And I realize there is a racial undertone here considering the topic, but primarily white rural districts are also underfunded and full of poverty stricken kids, who are then denied college entry over an inner city kid because of skin.
Is racism ok when it benefits you? Or is the whole idea of it bad?
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I came here literally to post this and saw a thread already started.
The headline I saw:
Imagine if this was any color other than “white”.
What ammendment is that? Refresh my memory please.
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Just my opinion, but make school funding based on the state, not district. As it is, some districts have a lot more income from taxes (they are in a rich area) than others.
Now, I am skeptical that this will improve disparities in education. What it (making funding for schools at the state level) might do is stop the whining about education disparities due to funding / school quality.
I think we need to question the assumption that all the students with different backgrounds should on average perform the same. With that assumption we are left with the educators and schools to blame for disparities in education.
I’d like to add that groups that “benefit” from affirmative action in college admissions have only a portion of that group that is benefited. The drop out rate for these students is much higher. On average that hurts these groups (and the students that don’t drop, a large portion of them would have made it on merit). So we have a group of dropouts that don’t get the fancy job, and also a ton of debt. It seems placing students in schools that match their abilities is a better way of doing things.
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No Child Left Behind did nothing but lower the common denominator and reduce the educational options for over-performers. You think make this effect even more pronounced is a good way to go?
Agree. Thomas Sowell spoke on this a few times as well.
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