No Standard, No Problem

Aerican Thinker.com ^ | August 18, 2021 | Randy Boudreaux

[Kaslin]

Equity is equality of outcome among racial and ethnic groups. Recently, the pursuit of equity in education, criminal justice, and in the professions has resulted in an impressive string of victories.

In education, equity warriors have been frustrated by a stubborn pattern in SAT and ACT scores. For decades Asians have scored higher than whites, who have scored higher than Hispanics, who have scored higher than blacks. These differences seem impervious to any K-12 education policy tinkering regardless of the policy’s ideological origin. Busing, charters, vouchers, increased spending, and universal testing have all failed to close these uncomfortable gaps.

Finally, in 2020, COVID provided the equity commissars a solution to their SAT/ACT “problem.” Many college bureaucrats who hope to increase the percentage of non-Asian minorities have discarded the SAT/ACT requirements for admission. At first, it was temporary, but then for many, it became permanent. The outcome is freshman classes with demographics that are now deemed more equitable. No standards, no problem. Equity!

It’s not just higher education that’s abandoning objective standards. Selective admission middle and high schools that use a test as part of the admissions process have been targeted by the equity enforcers. Due to admission tests, student bodies at these prestigious selective schools in New York City and Virginia have actually become less white, but not in the way the equity crowd wants; they have apparently become “too Asian.” The “equity” solution: ditch the admission tests in favor of a lottery. This would purge these schools of those equity-thwarting, overachieving Asian students. No standard, no problem. Equity!

[Kaslin]

Sorry I misspelled the source. The source is American Thinker.com

[Fraxinus]

It is amazing the number of people who think all standardized testing is to exclude blacks. Blacks tend to do poorly on many standardized tests for a combination of cultural pathologies. SAT/ACT, IQ and other standardized tests are intended to find those who would benefit from more intensive schooling. Those who are having problems in less intensive schooling due to poor reading ability will do poorly even if the reason is easily corrected (e.g. get glasses).

[central_va]

It’s in the wording. Take algebra. If the question starts out like this “Mary had 5 apples” then it’s racist. The question should be worded “Deshawn has 5 bags of meth”....

[JoJo354]

Now they will have equity. They’ll all be stupid together.

[ridesthemiles]

AND TOTALLY UNEMPLOYABLE