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While equalising opportunity is a noble endeavour, I fail to see how this particular initiative would achieve that. In short, it's too little too late. If someo
by hetman 7y ago
While equalising opportunity is a noble endeavour, I fail to see how this particular initiative would achieve that. In short, it's too little too late. If someone struggled through high school because of environmental factors, they're not going to suddenly be on their A-game because they were admitted into university. At the end of the day, we should still expect the highest levels of excellence from our professionals.
If we want to have a real impact we need to be examining the factors contributing to the disadvantage leading up to this point and find a way to address those.
- ViViDboarder 7y agoThe article said that it won’t alter the score. If someone went to a decent school, lived a care free life, and scored decently well, and then another student had the same score despite coming from a worse school district and having to work a part time job throughout high school, my bet would be on the later persons success. Maybe they’d perform similarly in college, and the struggler would still struggle, but post graduation my bets would be on the person who had to struggle.
- barbecue_sauce 7y agoHad to work a part time job throughout high school? Don't most people do this?