[exDemMom]

The SAT and ACT, the lawsuit says, "reflect demographic and socioeconomic characteristics like family income, parental education and race" instead of measuring "academic ability or mastery of curriculum."

True, I did take the SAT back in the 1970s. But I don't think it has changed much, other than to be dumbed down to reflect our declining K-12 education system. I do not remember any questions related to demographics, race, or socioeconomic status. Since the questions are related to mastery of knowledge, the lawsuit is utterly bogus.

Now, if those behind the lawsuit were genuinely concerned about the academic achievement of minorities, wouldn't they be suing the school districts that are failing to prepare students for college? To be fair, much of the academic failure in certain groups is cultural, but I don't know how one can sue a toxic culture for its role in making kids shun the behaviors that lead to success.

[kearnyirish2]

That’s a good point that plays a huge role in this: The earlier education is a farce, with social promotion and little learning. It was so bad that STEM was bastardized into “STEAM” - they threw “art” in there because they wanted to divert STEM program money towards people that could never participate in those fields, but would instead gravitate to a field where there is no such thing as a wrong answer: Art.

[TXnMA]

"To be fair, much of the academic failure in certain groups is cultural, but I don't know how one can sue a toxic culture for its role in making kids shun the behaviors that lead to success."

Accurate assessment...