This is one of the usual methods the left uses to justify violating the Constitution, to wit: lower the minimum requirements for a teacher, an applicant for college, or a contractor seeking a state job. Once the minimums are set, treat everyone who achieves such a minimum as equal,i.e., make the minimum a threshhold and all who surpass it are the same. Here's how the "logic" works in practice:
College entrance administrators often use a combined score to rank prospective applicants. This score is a mathematical combination of high school grades and SAT results. Using the combined score, each candidate is given a rating from 1 to 100. Suppose the majority of white and Asian applicants are ranked between 95 and 98, and the majority of black, Hispanic, and Native American applicants are ranked between 82 and 85. In the interests of the great God of diversity, the admissions committee merely has to agree that all students with a weighted score of 82 or higher will have passed the first cutoff. From that point, they can use "other" criteria to determine who actually gets admitted. The other criteria invariably includes a racial component, which allows about 10 to 15% of the entering class to be comprised of blacks and Hispanics, nearly all of whom had inferior qualifications to whites and Asians who were denied admission. This is democracy in action. </sarcasm>
Better get comfortable :^)
If any one would like to be removed from my CT Bump list, please let me know and it will be done ASAP. Conversely, if you would like to be added the same holds true.
Before that idiotic "one man, one vote" ruling, I have been told that the Connecticut state constitution allowed each town a maximum of three representatives. As a result, the legislature used to be about 70% Republican at times when voter registration was 65% Democrat.
Good move, actually. Mitchell is throwing down the gauntlet and daring the black leaders and the liberals to come out and admit they want affirmative action instead of a fair, quality-based hiring system. They'll get it and suffer the degradation of the school system's quality but hey, everyone involved will feeeeel soooo much better and the kids? Tough luck, junior. It's skin color that counts, get it? He will.
This is Connecticut, folks.
“Is the minority community saying they want us to give greater weight to a minority candidate? I would look forward to hearing what direction they want us to go in.’’
HAHAHAAA!
Dr. Martin Luther King would be very proud, LOL!!!
Actually, it's only Connecticut and that place is pretty much down the scumbag liberal toilet anyway, isn't it? They may as well hire nothing but minority teachers - - why hire only the best? Skin color, after all, is far more important than the "highest qualifications". It's perfectly okay to discriminate against white teachers, because they are - - white.
Yes, Dr. King would be very proud indeed. What a proud, proud group they have there in Connecticut. Hahahahaa...