We were just talking about this at breakfast...including the DC superintendent of schools who was forced out and resigned yesterday. Obama’s election message was free college education for all, which would open the doors of MIT and CalTech, Ivy League schools, etc. through affirmative action for illiterates and incompetents.
Some years ago Jesse Jackson demanded that MIT promote and graduate blacks no matter what. The school had seen a number of blacks commit suicide when they couldn’t achieve academic requirements despite intensive, year long tutoring. The kids were so ashamed and humiliated after being accepted...the best and brightest of their families, and all probably on full scholarships, that they couldn’t face having failed. MIT said they should have gone to other schools where they could have made the grade. They would have been happy there and led wonderful lives.
Jackson was furious, but MIT said people’s lives depended on engineers who built bridges and other structures, and if they graduated incompetents, Americans would die. Evidently Obama thinks we can absorb that.
“MIT said people’s lives depended on engineers who built bridges and other structures, and if they graduated incompetents, Americans would die.”
But that doesn’t stop them from graduating incompetent police officers and firefighters for “diversity” (along both racial and gender lines).
LLS
I have a family member that is absolutely brilliant in math. He went to a top notch college, and it was an eyeopener for him.
All his life he was the very top of his class in certain subjects. But when you go to certain elite schools, they will have a concentration of students as brilliant and probably a few moreso, than you are.
You suck it up and compete, or you change your major and get out.