Posted on 03/17/2021 2:27:35 PM PDT by rogerantone1
The fault doesn’t lie with the universities. The fault lies with horribly performing public K-12 schools — a result of protecting teacher unions from competition. Hoping that colleges can make up for this damage is irresponsible.
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Keeping someone from telling the truth does serve one good purpose: anyone looking at a school such as Georgetown knows it’s nothing more than a political hack school and not a real program. Any employer looking at a graduate as a job candidate knows the same.
The fault lies in the soft racism of low expectations. Students who are not qualified are placed in a position where they are doomed to fail.
Honestly, most of the malpractice assholes in medicine are paltry compared to those who escape 1st Year.
GT is a political hack school and not a real program.
OTOH, Chicago is still a real law school BUT an Obama can hack his way through politically and not pick up any program education.
There are two parties at fault here; the school for enrolling unqualified students in order to get funding and the students who failed their first higher education lesson and didn't say no to the college recruiter. No one is making these students enter programs they're not qualified for and if they believe the lie that they're ready for it, well then they're too dumb to educate anyway.
One solution you'll never see is for students to sue for reimbursement of their wasted time and taxpayers to sue for reimbursement of their money.
This is death to our society by continuing to lower our standards and admissions bar because politicians feel sorry for blacks. If I were black, I’d be highly insulted at this situation but apparently, most blacks aren’t as compelled.
You know, there are black students who actually make the grades and don’t need anyone’s fingers on any scales to get into anywhere ... and they get saddled by, associated with these yahoos who might do fine in some other institution.
Everyone gets hurt by affirmative action.
I don’t mind unqualified blacks in law school, because I don’t have to hire them. It would even be to my advantage if they were the attorney on the opposite side. However, I have a big problem with unqualified blacks in medical and engineering schools because that may impact me.
I have worked with some very competent black people. One spoke using dis, dat, dees and dem. I thought he was an idiot. Then, one day we were in a large meeting trying to figure something out and he quietly said something so profound, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I define genius as arriving at the correct conclusion despite have many missing facts. That is precisely what had happened. Nobody else noticed, then, a few minutes later, an old white guy said exactly the same thing and everyone said, “Of course!” “Fred” looked disgusted. From then on, I listened carefully to whatever he said and arrived at the conclusion he was one smart cookie.
I told him that as long as he sounded the way he did that no one would pay any attention to him and he would go no place. He was furious with me. A month later, he came and sat in my guest chair and apologized. He had hired a speech coach and was taking English classes. When I left, he was running a large department.
The point is, he was tarred with the stigma of all the black graduates who had been passed along without actually earning their degree. Flooding the market with fake college graduates is really hurting the ones who are worth their salt. Those people know it and they resent it.
no, the fault DOES lie with the universities, who gave these folks scholarships and free rides based on quotas instead of grades.
Much of the problem stems from the belief that the key to black progress is increased graduation rates and that leads to awarding diplomas without regard to merit.
I’ve mentioned this before. We had a black Lieutenant in one of my classes who failed the basic electronics phase, twice. Two failures are cause for dismissal from the class but DA insisted on his graduation because blacks were under-represented in this career field. The course work he failed had nothing more difficult than what one would encounter in the first two/three weeks of the basic Electrical Engineering course, ie, EE 101. This student had a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Thomas Sowell has been railing against this for decades. He says accepting black students into schools where the average student scores much higher just sets up the black student for failure when he or she might have done very well in a lower tier school where they are average or higher academically. But the top level schools have to meet their color quotas so black students become their collateral damage.
This is nothing more than trying to hide that the Affirmative Action that advances students that are not prepared for the next step of their education does not work.
It is also a lie. Preventing truth and fact from being exposed simply because it makes you or your policies look bad id lying by omission.
Equality is holding everyone to the same standards and rules,PERIOD.
I support equality, nothing more and nothing less.
The socialists on the left cannot stand the truth when it shows that their way does not work.
Listen to our words of provable truth and fact or communication in another manner will become necessary.
Look at the kids who cannot read and write who graduate.
How many “teachers” and administrators are fired every year?
I took some adult classes for a certificate program and was shocked that some of the people in the class seemed to be educated maybe near the junior high level, most with reading difficulties. It was an eye-opener.
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