Posted on 08/20/2015 4:24:35 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Last year’s historic plunge in bar exam passage rates triggered a firestorm of theorizing about what it could mean.
The fallout hasn’t stopped, as indicated by the cover of the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, whose headline asks: “Are Lawyers Getting Dumber?”
The story mostly focuses on the feud between the woman who runs the National Conference of Bar Examiners and law school deans over who’s responsible for the dramatic decline in student performance.
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I am guessing it means more minorities are taking the exam after having been passed through law school simple because of the color of their skin who are not even remotely qualified to be a lawyer.
Public school education is catching up to post grad schools.
Thomas Cooley law School has a very open admissions policy. But, admission is absolutely no guarantee of a degree. Unlike virtually every other law school, including Michigan Universities such as MSU and UM, just being admitted is not a guarantee of a law degree. The success exit door is very small. And, Cooley grads regularly beat the pants off “top tier” graduates in Court.
I took one page of the CPA exam as a final in my accounting course for my MBA. It was brutal.
The LSAT scores are a reflection of what has been graduating from American universities lately. Garbage in garbage out. I believe the LSAT was even dumbed-down at least once in the 2000s! Looks like we may get more “wise latinas” on the federal courts.
The grading might not be as anonymous as people think. I know of several instances of attorneys who were asked, early in the first semester of school, to hand write brief, signed letters indicating why they wanted to practice law, etc. Those letters were never seen again. I suspect they were collected for the purpose of providing known handwriting samples of people who HAD to do well on their “anonymous” law school exams, or write on to law review, or perhaps even pass the state’s “anonymous” bar exam.
It probably has nothing to do with affirmative action and diversity quotas
The problem starts long before law school or even college. As long as government is in charge of most schools, education in the US will continue to decline in quality and increase in cost. Many schools are mere propaganda mills and very little real learning takes place there.
“I worked for a lot of lawyers and often wondered how hard could law school be.”
Yes. If this is true about dumbing down admissions, my lawyer buddy will soon look old AND wise.
Living constitution and diversity p.c. nonsense, steeped in affirmative action?
I read a while back that many law schools had gone left big time.
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