Posted on 09/08/2018 2:34:55 PM PDT by grundle
According to this article from NPR, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, in order to get into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, you have to be in the top 25% of your graduating class.
The school is eliminating the honor society because not enough blacks and Latinos were graduating in the top 25%.
I’m not sure how getting rid of this honor society makes anyone better off.
On the contrary – I see this as just one more example of the dumbing down of America’s educational system.
As to the issue of why blacks and Latinos are underrepresented in the top 25%, my guess is that the school has lower admissions standards for blacks and Latinos than for everyone else. I could be wrong. And I’d be curious to hear anyone else explain a different reason in the comment section.
Thanks, Obama.
What about the Asians? They aren’t about to be any lower than the top 10%.
“Good to know, now Ill be sure to avoid black and Latino doctors.”
Unless it is Ben Carson, MD.
“Harvard education professor Natasha Warikoo...”
Who the hell is professor Wallaby? From a Flintstones cartoon?
Google .....Killer King Lois angeles calif...Run by black doctors and nurses..It was finally shut down after years of public suffering..
Black doctors and nurses ran Killer King in Los Angeles ..It finally had to be shut down after they called the cops on a dying patient.....
Actually, black and Latino doctors tend to treat their own. If you were to encounter one of those in your supposedly majority white hospital, they are probably amazing doctors at the top of their class in every way.
Actually, black and Latino doctors tend to treat their own. If you were to encounter one of those in your supposedly majority white hospital, they are probably amazing doctors at the top of their class in every way.
It was the best assignment I had in my whole career, and I was proud of all my subordinates.
Blaming white racism for poor black performance when there is a much more likely and reasonable explanation is EVIL.
Yeah, the new Mexican commie schools chancellor here in NYC has just taken a step to “equalize” the enrollment at the few schools which are still functional. It is not surprising that these schools have Asians and whites making up the vast majority of the student population. This anal orifice Carranza (who I would not be at all surprised to learn is a member of La Raza) has now decreed that a large percentage of the seats at these successful schools must now be reserved for low performing black and Hispanic students-—who will promptly trash those schools and cause them, in short order, to fail. Where will the studious Asian and white students who would have filled those seats at those schools go? To a failing ghetto school, where they will be beat up and otherwise harassed? If their parents can swing it, they will go to a private school and thus be out from under the stupidity of the NYC education bozos.
“They were competent in their work. “
Merely competent? Hardly high praise.
As to the issue of why blacks and Latinos are underrepresented in the top 25%, my guess is that the school has lower admissions standards for blacks and Latinos than for everyone else.
Thanks grundle.
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