This policy approved and endorsed
By Diana Moon Glampers
United States Handicapper General
("I told you so.")
Posted on 02/27/2015 9:46:04 PM PST by QT3.14
A report in the LA Times revealed that blacks and Hispanics get bonus SAT points at elite universities based on their race. Asian students however are penalized 50 points due to their race.
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I wonder about that. Remember the private bakery that refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple?
Do you want to hire an ethnic minority accountant who graduates from such a university where Black Privilege is implemented like this????
WHY ?
That would RUIN the reputation of the private school!
It’s obvious that you don’t know anything about private schools.
College admissions policies are discriminatory by nature. Not just anyone can get into Yale or Harvard.
Why do you want to force national policy on private institutions?
This policy approved and endorsed
By Diana Moon Glampers
United States Handicapper General
("I told you so.")
I don’t, but you obviously know NOTHING at all about private schools.
Marva Collins didn’t coddle minority students, she and her staff TAUGHT them and stretched their minds.
SAT or ACT scores are required by most colleges and universities as part of the admissions process; NO GOVERNMENT has imposed this !
Why don’t you know anything at all about America’s education system ?
Why should you or I have a say in what a private college does?
It does matter.
For every student who is admitted through an "augmented" score there is a more deserving student who was denied her chance to attend a top-rated university.
They will never make silk purses from sows' ears.
Are you posting what you believe, or just trying, very hard, to have an argument about a topic you 1) don’t understand 2) look like you really don’t care about 3) aren’t equipped to talk about ?
No college or university degree is free.
By attending such institutions, kids are supposedly prepared to go out into the world, be adults, and get a job.
Ergo, their reputations matter, as do their graduates’!
And unless YOU have a child/children, or are some “expert on education, who parents and/or schools would hire ( which obviously you aren’t ! ) your opinion about any schools of any kind, doesn’t matter to ANYONE, at all !
Just because a minority student gets into a college with extra SAT points doesn’t necessarily mean that he can’t be a good student and a good accountant. Most of those who shouldn’t be in college usually don’t graduate let alone get a professional degree.
And chances are, many of those, chosen over your son, either won’t graduate, or will be a lousy doctor.
Oh yes it does, because even with today’s grad inflation, those students aren’t up to snuff and has deprived a student of any race/minority of that space.
Is it your opinion that all minority students are substandard? It may surprise you to find that there are some minority students who don’t need the extra points.
Absolutely not !
However,an enormous amount of them are; sadly.
In many instances it’s not their fault at all, but rather, the failed public school schools they attend, their disfunctional family situation, and/or being influenced to not be educated by others.
1. I know of no school that formally “adds” points to one’s SAT. The meaning here is that typically the overall effect of racially-discriminatory admission rates would be as if the school gave members of specific groups a score boost that is, on average, a measurable number of additional points. In the past, there were schools that actually “gave” points thusly, but the courts struck down this practice, and these schools now conduct their approach to discrimination somewhat more subtly.
2. Any school that takes any sort of federal funding, or participates in any sort of federal program on behalf of students, including Pell grants, guaranteed student loans, etc., is legally obligated to refrain from racial or ethnic discrimination, whether the institution is public or private.
3. The Supreme Court has made a narrow exception permitting private institutions to engage in some racial and ethnic discrimination to further the goal of “diversity,” which private schools have represented before the court as being necessary to provide the education they claim to provide. However, the court rules that this was only permissible if there were no other way achieve the needed diversity.
4. The constitutionality of these practices has been recently challenged in a class action suit against Harvard et. al. by rejected Asian students. Plaintiffs counsel believe that they can demonstrate to the court that diversity can be achieved without resorting to racial and ethnic classification, which would make it difficult for these schools to continue the legal justification for their practice.
In the Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, (2007) case, Chief Justice Roberts summed it as follows:
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Can we call this Black Privilege?
Agreed. This is a very misleading headline. It would be more honest to just say that the average Black or Hispanic student has a lower SAT score than the average White student, and the average Asian student has a higher score.
Don’t they? They’re education has been so bad, as well as the cultural road blocks to their school success, maybe they do need the points. I’d imagine once they get in the chaff will separate from the wheat, but it’s unfair for sure.
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