Posted on 08/30/2024 9:50:56 PM PDT by Cronos
“getting in is one thing, staying there another...”
Sometimes getting in is not the problem. Quite a few years back Texas A&M(?) was being chastised by the Clinton FedGov because of the lack of blacks in the racial mix of the student body. It turns out that the problem was not the number of set-asides for minority students that the university had in place. It was because there were not enough black applicants to claim a set-aside. The truth was that even if a black couldn’t qualify for admission there was a good chance that they would be accepted just to fill a spot. Of course once accepted the FedGov was happy. The fact that many did not get to their sophomore year was irrelevant.
What we need is a means for people to acquire an education through other means than the school system. There are people who can run rings around university graduates because they have a love of knowledge in their area of interest, However, because they did not graduate from a formal school of education, they can’t monetize it.
In my view, schools should only be teaching and not qualifying anybody. The professional college and trade unions should be responsible for qualifying people, because their reputation depends upon having qualified workers who can do the job and the professional colleges and trade unions don’t want to lose their reputations because they are rubber stamping unqualified people into the work force.
They have to stop focusing on skin color and admit it boils down to culture.
The horror of accepting students based on merit must scare the hell out of the left.
Hopefully these institutions start actually teaching the students vice indoctrinating them and that would eliminate the stupidity of the left, men would remain men and women would remain women and common sense would return.
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In other news, students who had no business being in some colleges will no longer take spots of students more academically qualified.
Take your DEI and shove it up your wazoo.
Try doing better in school
Best and brightest regardless of race or religion.
There is a way to fix that. Keep the existing rules in place except expand "diversity" requirements for faculty and administrators to include diversity of thought. So.....how many gun toting, red MAGA hat wearing, proud and openly Nationalist Trump voters do we have among the faculty and admins? What's that? 1 in 10 or 1 in 20? Wellll then.....We'll need to impose a quota until it is at least 50/50. Effectively that will mean "Leftists need not apply" for any faculty or admin jobs at Universities for at least a generation.
There is no diversity anywhere near as important as diversity of thought.
Wow. The NY Times is utterly innumerate. (Numerically illiterate) Dropping from 11% to 3% Black is not an 8% drop; it’s more than 70%.
Meritocracy is so oppressive. /s
Hopefully the ackarepubmic standards of sfhools will be going up now on an indirect proportionate but definateable direct basisnate .
Well, with anti-white admissions policies comes an end to objective assessments.
No one who is getting straight "A"s is going to drop out just because they don't comprehend the material.
Admitting and turning out are two different events
nope, not if they aren’t paying they wont...
But black students who got in can be proud that they did it on merit and not because of the color of their skin.
Leftist whining.
I will always believe my middle son was a victim of affirmative action (being white that is). His high school record was stellar - 9th in his class out of 350, all A’s, all AP classes, 1480 SAT, a top musician playing tenor sax in New England, won multiple awards, leadership roles in school clubs, etc. But he got rejected by MIT, Brown, and Cornell. He was accepted at other elite schools and is doing just fine, but his disappointment at the time was tough.
Or another way of looking at it. People who deserve the slots based on ability and achievement are getting them again.
Let the weeping and gnashing of teeth begin at all the leftist “think tanks” and pressure groups.
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