Posted on 06/21/2021 6:03:32 AM PDT by blam
Browns fan here. If we had random Super Bowl winners maybe my Brownies would have a few by now. Sorry about that Tom Brady.
Truth hurts. It still must be accepted.
A real question...
Hypothetical..
If a student is promoted through k-12 based on age rather than learning.
And at the end of their High School is functionally illiterate.
They are now able to apply to the elite colleges. And have just as much chance as any other of being admitted.
So, the Illiterate gets into MIT. Does MIT drop their standards in order to retain the student? If 20-30% of their incoming class is NOT academically fit, Do they drop their standards across the board? At which point an “elite” scroll stops being an “elite” school?
Due to lack of ability, and then lack of participation do they stop offering cutting edge courses of study? s they no longer have enough students to warrant offerings?
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as “bad luck.” ~ Robert Heinlein
That will do wonders for all K-12 education.
That will do wonders for all K-12 education.
A perfect plan to make sure that countries with merit based STEM education programs succeed. This will greatly advantage China, Russia and India. Who will want anything designed built or medical in nature by a graduate of such an American system?
The winners will be the unions, the teachers, etc. More perks and job security galore.
This is plainly a stupid way to "qualify" for higher education.
However, I think they ARE on to something.
We should elect our politicians this way:
If you fail to show interest, your name goes in a big hat. Then do the random selection.
(Hat Tip - Bill Buckley and the phone book.)
Why not just have a lottery system that awards some high school seniors with a prestigious college degree? They could completely avoid all that tough work of studying and taking exams. It seems only fair.
Elite colleges MUST discriminate in favor of minorities, in order to have any significant number in their student population.
Only 1% of blacks score 700 or above on SAT math, versus 9% of whites, 2% of latinos and 35% of Asians
Idiocracy was a comedy movie not a plan for the future.
Owww, owww, owwww, I know. How about a lottery like the did in the late 60’s early 70’s for the draft. Of course I had already enlisted before they started that and my number would have been like 87th anyway. LOL! :-}
I am totally in favor of random selection for university admissions on one condition:
—All university presidents and administrators and professors must be randomly selected from the population.
—All members of Congress must be randomly selected from the population.
—All members of college and professional sports teams must be randomly selected from the population.
Self-Loathing Socialist Democrats these days would gladly embrace a yearly stoning of a ‘randomly selected’ white person as portrayed in, ‘The Lottery.’ ;)
Just another way for the really (book) smart to demonstrate that common sense is really not so common.
So community college on up through the bottom half of all ranked universities are basically a damn lottery right now. Most state schools offer remedial entry to matriculation. What these pinheads are calling for is the Ivy's to go random, and it will never never never never never never never never never never never happen. For one thing, money, and by that I mean legacy/alumni money; and two, a place like Yale would have to institute a remedial entry/retention plan with 008s and 009s like everyone else lofl.
No, not a chance in hell the top 50 school muttlerize their own population after they've intentionally ruined the rest.
Equality = Equal Opportunity
Equity = Equal Outcome
Randomly selected MDs. What a great idea!
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