Posted on 07/21/2014 9:48:15 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Political correctness has now reached an entirely new stratosphere: The University of Wisconsin-Madison believes grades should be apportioned based on race:
Campus Reform reports:
The policy, named the “Framework for Diversity and Inclusive Excellence,” calls for “proportional participation of historically underrepresented racial-ethnic groups at all levels of an institution, including high-status special programs, high-demand majors, and in the distribution of grades.”
Huh? UWM professor W. Lee Hansen wrote about his concerns with the ridiculous politically correct policy late last week:
“Professors, instead of just awarding the grade that each student earns, would apparently have to adjust them so that academically weaker, ‘historically underrepresented racial/ethnic’ students perform at the same level and receive the same grades as academically stronger students.”
The good professor also took the university to task over how students of one race could prohibit students of other races from selecting their major:
“Suppose there were a surge of interest in a high demand field such as computer science. Under the ‘equity’ policy, it seems that some of those who want to study this field would be told that they’ll have to choose another major because computer science already has “enough” students from their ‘difference’ group.”
As the famous Austrian economist F.A. Hayek said: “There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.”
This is simply the logical expansion of “Everyone Gets a Trophy”.
UW Madison is just following what most of the NEA infiltrated schools have been doing for years by dumbing down the education system to make it easier for minorities to FEEL they have achieved. Indeed this is racial discrimination and should be challenged in court.
(As a Wisconsin citizen, please do NOT JUDGE all of Wisconsin by what you see and hear of in Madison).
AN AMAZING DIVERSITY PLAN AT MADISON
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2014/07/an-amazing-diversity-plan-at-madison/
A remarkable article (http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=3039#.U85KffldVGm) [worth reading - pdf at bottom] on the University of Wisconsin (Madison) appeared yesterday on the John William Pope Center site. In it, UW economics professor W. Lee Hansen writes about a comprehensive diversity plan prepared for the already diversity-obsessed campus.
Report
http://diversityframework.wisc.edu/
Obama signed an Executive order regarding race in the classroom - could be a result of that EO?
Marxists wallowing in their White Guilt.
Pray America wakes up
Harley has a factory in Wisconsin. It’s not all bad.
A Wisconsin degree has now been devalued.
The devil’s disdain for his own minions?
An in-your-face to the people who see what stupid liberal policies lead to?
A way of “refuting” using absurdity to demonstrate the insanity of liberal policies?
What you’re seeing is the inherent vindictive nature of leftism.
They are all about punishing people by tearing down what works,
all the while, using their sheeperal supporters’ desire for self righteousness by claiming they want to “help people”.
They already are.
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