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The College Board: Dumbing Down America
American Thinker.com ^ | May 19, 2019 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 05/19/2019 8:16:40 AM PDT by Kaslin

There are now 23 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination with New York’s mayor jumping in. The unveiling of the spies and tactics behind the fake collusion tale continues apace. It looks as though Mueller will testify before Congress on the 12th of Never and the impeachment train will never leave the station. Inspector General Horowitz’s reports on Comey and another on charges of illegal conduct in the DoJ and FBI are due soon, though, as usual, seem to be a long time aborning.  General Flynn’s sentencing hearing should come soon. There were this week some mysterious rulings by Judge Sullivan on disclosure, and the prosecution under new management obtained an order allowing them to unseal some material in its possession, though we don’t yet know what is to be revealed, we assume it is the exculpatory material of which there should be a lot.

With nothing much new to report on these matters, it’s time to visit what the heck has happened to the College Board and why people should encourage students to take the ACT test for college admission and scrap the SAT one. It’s the only way I can think of slap some sense into an organization which has gone far off its mission and now appears full-fledged into one designed to (further) dumb down America.

The SAT, which has at various times been referred to as the Scholastic Aptitude Test, Scholastic Assessment Test, and SAT Reasoning Test, was created in an attempt to standardize college admissions procedures and increase access to higher education. In the later 19th century, it was common for individual universities to have their own admissions tests or to grant acceptances to students without testing through certification of specific high schools.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: college; education
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1 posted on 05/19/2019 8:16:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
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they could only go lower if the entrance test was to simply fog a mirror...
2 posted on 05/19/2019 8:35:58 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Kaslin

I heard the ACT is planning to roll out a similar adversity system, lest they be accused of being White supremacist.


3 posted on 05/19/2019 9:00:27 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Chode

They could only go lower if the entrance test was to simply fog a mirror... if the candidates were not white males and any Christians.


4 posted on 05/19/2019 9:24:30 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (You can't normalize the type of behavior, the left is trying to normalize, because it isn't normal!)
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pretty much


5 posted on 05/19/2019 9:34:36 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

Teacher to the lowest common denominator in the room can never be called progress.

bUT wtF DO i KNOW.


6 posted on 05/19/2019 9:37:21 AM PDT by Zeneta
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100%... it’s not progress, but it’s progressive


7 posted on 05/19/2019 10:32:22 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqw_Zo49IPY&t=115s

Soph.

Foul and vulgar 14 YO rants on Public Schools and the Left.


8 posted on 05/19/2019 10:36:39 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Zeneta

i love her, she’s hilarious


9 posted on 05/19/2019 10:51:17 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Chode

At first, I thought she was just reciting some script that her dad wrote. But after a few videos I’m certain that she actually has her own S**t together.

She’s 14 and has nearly a million subscribers !!!!!

Thankfully, there seems a new generation that have the balls to attack and destroy the PC culture of the Left.

Love it.


10 posted on 05/19/2019 11:07:57 AM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Zeneta

When I see kids like this it renews my hope for humanity and the future. Way to go, girl!


11 posted on 05/19/2019 11:21:47 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Zeneta

Lol ! X100


12 posted on 05/19/2019 11:31:36 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Zeneta

my favorite... it got kicked off youtube because it contains waaaay too much truth.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/OdaUDeAGIck/


13 posted on 05/19/2019 11:47:57 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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This adversity score is unfair on a number of accounts.

It focuses on general averages and a simple score akin to a FICO score, but it ignores individual circumstances. That Dad died or Mom has cancer? Don’t care, you live in “privilege”.

It will incentivize monkey-see-monkey-do approvals just as occurs with loans and some job applications. Worse, it doesn’t even reflect individual decisions like overspending or taking on too much debt. It does nothing to reflect a student’s actual circumstances.

The kid living with divorced Mom in grandma’s guest room in a good neighborhood or else they’re homeless ... is discriminated against in favor of the middle class family.

It discriminates against the family with unemployed Dad struggling to keep the house in a middle class community, someone who really needs financial aid. They live in the wrong neighborhood, one that’s classed as high income/wealth. That you’re poor doesn’t matter.

You’ll incentivize new types of fraud, listing your address as the poor relative’s or worker’s home for the SAT instead of the upscale neighborhood that gets you into wealthier, better schools.


14 posted on 05/19/2019 11:51:45 AM PDT by tbw2
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Thank you

I’ve been trying to find that one for a week now.

I can’t play the video in Chrome or Firefox.

This s**t sucks.

Need a new machine to get a clean, unfiltered start on path to the dark side.

BTW, CP is going live now.

The best of Allah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJDHD0Ko-I


15 posted on 05/19/2019 12:02:12 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Zeneta

Bookmark


16 posted on 05/19/2019 12:29:35 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Zeneta

she has stated both her parents voted for hiLIARy so i’m sure she gets no encouragement there


17 posted on 05/19/2019 12:29:57 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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she has stated both her parents voted for hiLIARy so i’m sure she gets no encouragement there


I didn’t catch that.

I got the impression that she is an only child of a single Father.


18 posted on 05/19/2019 12:33:05 PM PDT by Zeneta
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and i can’t play the CP live because it’s in HTML5...

youtube seems to randomly do video in 5 my FF won’t plat it either

GRRRRRRRR


19 posted on 05/19/2019 12:35:00 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Zeneta

iirc she has an older brother too


20 posted on 05/19/2019 12:37:38 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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