I used to do personnel work, and it was sad to see the occasional Black kid (it was always a Black, never a White) who turned in a barely-legible, scrawled job application that looked like a second grader wrote it:big uneven print that went up and down, not in a straight line.
It made me feel angry at our public school system. The poor kids wanted to work, but how could they get hired if they can't write?
The poor kids wanted to work, but how could they get hired if they can't write? Discriminatory hiring practices, eh?
Did you even bother to quantify their self-esteem? I'd wager it was right off the charts.
You can't base hiring decisions on outdated metrics. Get with the program!