Get rid of that, and a home-schooled 18 year old who passed the tests for literacy, writing ability, and technical knowledge would win the job over a college graduate with a lower score.
“What would crush the college scam is overturning Griggs v Duke Power, which prohibited companies from using standardized tests in hiring and promotion decisions, if such tests had worse pass rates for minority candidates.”
You’re about the first person that I’ve run across who knows of the massive change in hiring practices that Duke Power v Griggs imposed upon the American people.
Since Griggs effectively ended the ability of large corporations to use internal testing to screen their hires, corporate America decided to have colleges do it for them.
From the day that Griggs became law, companies began insisting on college degrees for virtually every position that they offered. This drastically reduced opportunity for bright kids who haven’t the time or money to spend on college. Suddenly colleges became the gatekeepers for employment, and they have exploited that windfall ever since.
Griggs v Duke Power is a direct consequence of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which conservatives of the time opposed (Goldwater, Buckley, Reagan). And yet today every media conservative worships the Civil Rights Act like it’s Holy writ. Guess which ones had better sense.