Because hard work, having a game plan, and focus... racist entitlement.
Random selections for medical schools and residency programs also. The stupid and lazy are people too and deserve equity in outcomes!
This seems to relate to the false Lefty idea that rich people are rich because they get lucky. Steve Jobs? Lucky. Henry Ford? Lucky. Why isn’t some super-woke ultra-pierced millenial NOT rich? They’re just unlucky.
If success in life is just about luck (where you’re born, who your parents are, who your second grade teacher was, etc.) then you might as well throw everything out the window and just randomly give people admission to college.
This is just a way for irresponsible people to shrug and say “I’m not responsible for my failures.”
Perhaps the leadership calling for this would be willing to put their names in a hat and let whatever name is drawn take their position along with the salary, retirement etc
Disagree. It is the only way that the education-industrial complex can be destroyed. Once getting into a college means nothing, getting a degree will also mean nothing. Kill the revenue stream to the big state universities and let the few colleges who still focus on merit succeed on their product. It’s the only way. The universities are too big, too rich, and too far gone to reform. The deadwood must be burned away...
The only part I’d agree with is removing all sports from academics. There’s no reason to mix them except for money.
The race to the bottom continues. China and India laugh yet again.
It seems like a parody that this would become policy, but nothing would surprise me anymore.
If implemented, the real joke is on the faculty. They will hate teaching people in the lower half of the IQ scale (or even lower). In the end, they’ll throw up their hands and start giving out As as not to appear racist. This will, of course, accelerate the perception that college degrees are absolutely worthless. In short, they would be destroying their own institutions and they know it.
When all standards fall, Western Civilisation will fall.
The Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation will be followed by another long Dark Age.
The losers in this lottery will be the winners. They get to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to ultimately get a job making coffee at Starbucks.
The highly selective schools are the ones with the most to lose, and therefore they will not do this. What is Harvard without the impression that simply gaining admittance is an achievement in its own right? and especially so for a white or asian kid
The math professor is an idiot. The lawsuits are based on demographics of the resulting class body - and are required to conform to demographics of society as a whole (actually, in many cases to exceed demographics for certain privileged groups).
Random selection will be condemned as somehow being weighted againt a minority applicant, no matter what.
IMO, but based on observations of the idiocy of many successful lawsuits.
Great idea!
And what are all these gifted programs?
How discriminatory can you get?
Since less than 1% of the population is truly gifted, they should let retarded people in too!
It should be 99.99% retarded and 0.01% gifted!
In other words, those who have the right connections, as always.
Hey, Princeton and Haavad - show us you are at the forefront of progress!
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.
That will do wonders for all K-12 education.