Grade inflation just is not keeping up with today’s lower expectations.
The UC folks get $300,000 to $400,000/year for thinking big like this.
My daughter’s friend is an affirmative action student at a top law school, and she told me that they(I presume she was referring to all the affirmative action enrollees)could not receive any grade than a B+, so she wasn’t really working that hard in school. She was just letting the other kids compete for the A’s and class ranking. She thought that class ranking didn’t really make that much difference if you are a civil rights lawyer, anyway.
That's easy. The dumber they are, the easier they are to manipulate and brainwash them into the liberal mold. Lefty elistists don't want people who can think for themselves. They want people who will think and do what they are to do.
There are highschools where you can graduate with a 3.0 or better without writing a cogent paragraph. OTOH, where my kids went to school, it was not easy to get all B’s or better.
Tsk tsk. I attended one of the finest primary schools in the country, and went to a private, Jesuit high school. I did not maintain a B average at high school. I didn't maintain a cumulative B average at college until my last semester (when I decided to do some work in order to polish my grad school resume). By and large, I thought the work to be boring and largely below my skill level.
After college, I attended graduate school at one of the highest ranked schools in the nation, based largely on very high standardized test scores. I found work that interested me and I graduated with high honors. You can't lump low GPA people into one category. We're not all the same.
Out of 24 students our grade breakdown was as follows:
A - 0
B - 1 (a lazy slacker who dressed like a bum and shaved once a month but was actually a phenomenal engineer)
C - 6 (I was one of these stars)
D - 8
F/Incomplete - 9
Special Talents = skin pigmentation.
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Maintaining a B average in high school is not difficult, and someone who cannot do it is probably not college material, regardless of his or her race.”
Not to mention a “B” today is the equivalent of a “C” from the 70s going back in time.
The degradation of our educational system continues. The Asian nations look upon this type of thing with utter amazement, and in the case of the ChiComs, with glee.
It’ll only get worse, because Political Correctness demands certain outcomes, and a competitive world in which excellence is the goal doesn’t produce those results.
Granting lazy whiners a free pass to a degree that is worthless, at a college where they won’t have to worry about paying tuition because the children of Whitey are paying full tuition.
But it doesn’t matter because they will get free “affirmative action” anyway.
I think Poland’s got it right. Higher education is free in the public universities, however there are fewer of them and only the brightest can get in them. Those who do not excel can go to the private universities. If they can’t afford it, well then, that’s tough luck. They should have tried harder in their primary education.