“It’s impossible,” Spencer said in a recent interview, “to achieve diversity on a regular basis if race cannot be used as one of many factors.”
Impossible? Stunning statement to make. Maybe they should analyze why blacks don’t want to go to that college and start from there. Instead their answer is to use racism to achieve diversity. Incredible.
What is “impossible” is to admit that the primary education system in the state has failed and will continue to fail.
Add to that the cultural divided that has been the core of the Democratic Party since the mid-1960s and minorities in the Republic are in for a rough time.
But, I have a simple, and historic, solution for this issue. Michigan needs to adopt the educational polices practiced by the service academies roughly 100 years ago and are, to a lesser degree, still in practice today.
The service academies knew/know that all too many of their incoming classes aren’t ready. One hundred years ago the deficiencies were primarily academic. Today they are primarily social. So, the service academies have orientation classes to make good those shortfalls.
A course of two or three semesters of academics ONLY would offer the undereducated/uneducated minorities a chance to redress their shortfalls. Yes, they would be older than those who came directly out of high school; but, they would be able to keep up in class and graduate which is more important.
Yes, these prep schools would have some ugly failure rates. But, since when has education been a losing proposition?
One final thought, the colleges already do this for a minor issue called football; why can’t they do it for a major issue like education?