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I love how diversi-crats treat college education as a fungible commodity - if we can just get more minorities into the Ivy League, we'll magically solve all of
by defen 18y ago
I love how diversi-crats treat college education as a fungible commodity - if we can just get more minorities into the Ivy League, we'll magically solve all of their problems. Putting someone into an academic environment which is too far beyond his capabilities is a bad idea.
- tokenadult 18y agoPutting someone into an academic environment which is too far beyond his capabilities is a bad idea. I agree with this statement of policy. How do you think a college admission office ought to judge what an applicant's capabilities are?
- Dilpil 18y agoMaybe we could put together some sort of test...
- tokenadult 18y agoIs the test score the sole issue you would consider, or would anything else at all make a difference?
- sep332 18y agoWhat other things might legitimately make a difference?
- andylei 18y agoshould probably standardize that test, so that students across the country could be judged based on the same benchmarks :)
- tokenadult 18y agoIs a student who took a very different set of courses in high school exactly as strong a candidate for college admission as some other student with the same test who took different courses? How about if one student sleeps on a sheet of cardboard under a bridge (working by day to support his family), while another lives in a mansion and has test-prep tutors come to coach him throughout his free time?
- snprbob86 18y agoAgreed. This is the fundamental flaw with the affirmative action and other diversity advocates. Artificially increasing diversity is institutional racism which only serves to mitigate a symptom, not eliminate a cause. Rather than forcibly put more minorities through college, we should improve schools in poor and underprivileged neighborhoods. Unfortunately, this real solution may take 10 to 20 years to see results... which is far shorter than the average term in public office.
- sketerpot 18y agoSchools can only do so much. If by putting more minorities through college you can increase the average level of education among minority parents (when those students have kids), you may be able to improve their kids' educations as a side-effect.
- snprbob86 18y agoI'd much prefer that everyone get a proper primary education than a few people struggle through a secondary education to bet on their children.
- khafra 18y agoActually, a 1999 study showed that highly selective colleges made a bigger difference in the future income of students from low-income backgrounds than it did to students from high-income backgrounds. Putting dumb people in MIT isn't a good idea, but putting lower class people in is. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003355302320935089 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003355302320...