Posted on 04/14/2014 1:29:36 PM PDT by grundle
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I don't blame this guy - I blame our poor education system instead.
This guy is proof that it's way too easy to get into college. He didn't even know how to pronounce "Achilles." We need to have fewer people in college, not more.
It's also pathetic that the host of the news program, as well as 75% of the audience, thinks that the rules should be waived so this guy can be declared a winner.
That being said, I do praise him for being a good sport about it.
The Pro Golf tour shows that performance under pressure is difficult for many. Human Nature.
I challenged Pat Sajak to use “Fort Michilimackinac”. LOL
Do you have a link to the video clip....? ;-)
And he won, by the way, so he must have been doing something right.
And he won, by the way, so he must have been doing something right.
With a quota system in place, people like Julian Batts, get a free ride into universities. Here's information about the racist Hudson & Holland Scholars Program at Indiana University that allows for the unqualified, including Batts, to take up space at educational institutions, denying opportunities for those with actual merit.
He did better than most special ed students would have.
I saw this the other night and I think he got cheated.
I want to see the clip of YOU!
I’m sure the folks back at Indiana U. were thrilled that he was wearing their sweatshirt.
I’ve never been on the show. I talk to Pat Sajak on twitter pretty regularly.
>> don’t blame this guy - I blame our poor education system instead.
This guy is proof that it’s way too easy to get into college. <<
In college and can’t pronounce “Achilles?”
You left out “too easy for SOME PEOPLE to get into college.”
EEO college recruits are like EEO hires — the thumb on the scale hurts the candidate, the institution and society.
Would YOU want a doctor who didn’t really pass his boards but instead was given + points for skin color? Same for lawyer?
Obviously I saw that episode and used it as an example of what “diversity” programs produce. In this case this guy was embarrassed in front of MILLIONS of people.
Give him a break! He was using the Ebonic pronunciation........
Obviously, he had never heard the name pronounced before. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it can be amusing.
I once had a young fellow call me, trying to sell season tickets to the symphony. I asked him what were some of the pieces or composers on the program for the season. He made a valiant attempt at pronouncing (phonetically): Choppin’, Beat Hoven, and Back. Sadly, many young folks have never heard the music or been exposed to culture outside their neighborhood.
>>I challenged Pat Sajak to use “Fort Michilimackinac”. LOL<<
My prior post notwithstanding, let’s see who he does with Duquesne Incline or the Monongahela River.
Or Port Hueneme....
But none of these are “Achilles” which I learned about in GRADE SCHOOL.
It’s a game show! Give the guy a break! Feel sorry for the U that was on his chest!
Or, for that matter, North Versailles Township.
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