[reaganaut1]

The background is that Amy Wax, a professor at the U Penn law school, said that black students are rarely in the top half of the class. She has been accused of racism and prevented from teaching first year classes. I'm glad she is not backing down.

[livius]

Good article. If there’s one thing that scares the heck out of postmodern leftists, ranging from academics to the current pope, it’s facts.

[rightwingcrazy]

‘Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”

I don’t think that advice always work for a schizophrenic.

[aquila48]

“The background is that Amy Wax, a professor at the U Penn law school, said that black students are rarely in the top half of the class.”

Not to worry, that will be mandated soon, just like they did with the problem of there not being enough blacks getting Oscars.

[tomkat]

             

[Intolerant in NJ]

Those numbers are now solely within the control of the individual students who earn them and the educational institutions that generate them...problem is - what goes into determining those grades - do they really represent the intellectual ability of each student, or have they been contaminated by the need to give some students of certain supposedly disadvantaged groups special assistance, and maybe penalize others who hold views that are considered inimical to the best interests of society, and maybe other factors not related to ensuring that the most capable students earn the highest grades.....

[imardmd1]

The problem here is, what makes one "black"? Are the grades based on melanin, or the kind of culture by which one's proficiency in responding to schooling is formed?

How about Ben Carson and his brother--does the home environment not make a difference?

How "black" does one have to be that makes utter failure in intellectual ventures inevitable? Eh?

[Albion Wilde]

Ping to an article by the Penn law professer discussed earlier today. Cheers!

[Architect of Avalon]

A lot of university classes are completely subjective.

Students who sign onto the professors’ positions get good grades.