This article hit the NYTimes’s website last night. Guess what the Times ran today? Another in a series of articles decrying the AP tests. You know the real reason the left wants to get rid of the AP tests, SATs, etc? Because no amount of government spending will close the gap between black students and everyone else on standardized tests. So...let’s increase wild government spending, demand more affirmative action, and abolish objective testing measures. This is part of the reason Obama wants to massively expand government and why he wants to own a chunk of Wall Street: to pack government and private industry with the same people who (as a group) persist in lagging behind everybody else, forty years after the launch of the Great Society. It’s pure racism and I cannot believe it is happening in our country.
That is the problem with the “disparate impact” theory. I think it started out as a presumption that if the results of the testing process did not result in the promotion of the protected groups in the same proportion as they were in the general population then the test was to be presumed to be discriminatory
That seems to have morphed into a “rule” that if the results impact a protected group more, then the testing process IS dicriminatory
We are rushing down to the lowest common denominator and strict quotas
Let’s see how SCOTUS handles the Ricci v. New Haven (fire dept propmotion exam) case