Posted on 05/09/2016 1:39:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
US Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. wants colleges to stop asking applicants about their criminal histories early in the admissions process.
Because a disproportionate number of people who have been charged with crimes are people of color, the U.S. Department of Education says, these questions increase the barriers disadvantaged students face when seeking an education.
“We believe in second chances and we believe in fairness,” King said in a statement. “We must ensure that more people ... have the chance at higher education opportunities.”
The Department of Education is sending a guide, called “Beyond the Box,” with suggestions to college presidents across the country. The guide comes with a letter that urges them to “attract a diverse and qualified student body without creating unnecessary barriers for prospective students who have been involved with the justice system.”
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I didn’t know colleges did that. What has someone’s record to do with them going to college?????
Yeah, let’s put a bunch of gang banging rapists in with young white middle class kids from Suburbia..
What could go wrong?
Just more distraction from the $20+ trillion debt, illegals, Syrian blunders, recession, labor participation rate, etc.
Odungo doing his “get some attention” skit
1.) Are you now, or have you ever, lied about your race to get special consideration for an application to college or for scholarship funds?
2.) Where do you stand on the college rape culture?
3.) Should biological gaseous and fecal transactions be made illegal in pursuit of saving mother erf from Carbon Dioxide poisoning?
4.) What was the last original thought you had before this collegiate entrance interview?
They shouldn’t care about minor offenses. Most college applicants will have recently turned 18, so if they have a record, it should be a juvenile record not publicly avaliable anyway. I can see where a college might not want to accept a registered sex offender. However, this is clearly a matter best left to the states and the feds should butt out.
They ask every question they can, regarding if people are white, wealthy and male, and they discriminate accordingly.
I’m learning now that pro ball players are “allowed” to be delinquent in paying back loans
Are they former students or assets?
So sign a form to kiss on campus to protect the women from rape, but allow felons to run free.
Protecting two key parts of the Democrat voting base.
Stupider, and stupider. Far too many people in gubmint with way too much time on their hands dreaming up bullshit we, the people have to live with. The French Revolution was the right idea!
“What has someone’s record to do with them going to college?”
I went to school with a guy who had a record of vehicle theft, and breaking and entering. Guess what he did freshman year?
Another kid transferred in from another school where he’d been busted for dealing drugs. Guess what he did junior year?
Eventually teh school started to screen students for criminal records because people who habitually broke the law were not going to stop just because their parents sent them to a college.
Now, apparently, it’s racist to ask if the person has a record.
Yes, by all means, let’s enable sex criminals to share a dorm room with Little Johnny and Jill.
All 'cause of their color...got nuthin' ta do with their BEHAVIOR... < /sarc >
Got his life turned around and became a doctor.
Another kid transferred in from another school where he’d been busted for dealing drugs. Guess what he did junior year?
Left his life of crime and became an aeronautical engineer.
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Did I get guess right?
What does it have to do with their going to college?
Crooks are crooks. Do you really want a rapist loose in a dorm. A thief loose in a dorm? A drug dealer loose....
For many crooks, arrests are simply a cost of doing business, and a college campus is a new, target rich environment, with room and board paid for us taxpayers.
Let take a look at the snapshot. Democrat’s policies are allowing illegal immigrants to come here and do as they please and not deported. Then we have Democrats policies setting felons free from prison; most of them have been arrested for violent crimes. Then we have Democrats policies allowing felons to vote in elections. Then we have Democrats policies opening up special college for felons. Democrat’s policies banning employers and housing authorities from doing back ground check and they are not allowed to ask. Democrats have determined that the problem is our laws and the Police Officer who enforce our laws.
Unfortunately no.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Would you want your son or daughter to room with a violent criminal?
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