1/11/2024 0 Comments Chicken thoughts comics![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If a student can't keep up, there should be an evaluation process to determine if there is a addressable reason why they can't keep up.Īt least this is one possible idea.But once a load of students actually want to get to those advanced institutions there will be a very competitive entry process…certainly to likes of Yale, Harvard, MIT where successful graduates have a good chance to go on to help control the commanding heights of the economy, etc.Īt that stage students that have had personal tuition, massive support at home, the best schools will be at a massive advantage compared to kids from a broken home. High standards should be set for keeping up with the course work, working hard, and doing well. The rule should be that every high school student who wants to attend college gets the chance to attend college. Addressing Racism in admissions should be balanced with standardizing (or eliminating) admissions criteria. There are a whole lot of Colleges and Universities throughout the US. But you do get to choose your opinion of that system.) Was he a hypocrite? What should Thomas have done to avoid hypocrisy, opt out of law school entirely? You don’t get to choose whether you benefit from a given system of admissions. President Bush, for instance, believed that the legacy system was unjust even though he likely benefited from it personally. You can derive benefit from a system while also believing that that system is unjust. (Ultimately, the notion that Thomas is a hypocrite wouldn’t make sense even if he did believe he had benefited from Affirmative Action. And what good is the stronger brand signal if prospective employers are silently (and rationally) canceling it out in their heads? Don’t we all have those sorts of intrusive thoughts, rightly or wrongly, about legacy admits and student athletes? How many of us openly said that of President Bush? It would be strange if race-based affirmative action were the only anti-meritocratic policy about which people did not have such intrusive thoughts. He put a “10-cent” label on his Yale Law degree, feeling that employers devalued it because they assumed he only got in because he was black. They are conveniently failing to mention that Thomas actually blamed Affirmative Action for his inability to get a job after law school. Standardizing education to give everyone a fair chance.Īdmission packets and testing should only be for getting into graduate schools and similar advanced education. And if anyone argues that certain minority students are disadvantaged, then that has to be addressed as well, at the Elementary and High School levels. Blind, open Admissions with a standard, achievable minimum. Of course there should be basic minimum requirements, like maintaining a B or hiher average in High School, graduating, and having completed a certain level of education.įor those who can't meet the minimum standards, there is always the Community College option where they get a second chance to pull their grades up and complete course work that they didn't do in High School. In my vision of education, all public college and universities will either have to admit anyone who applies, or if there is a unavoidable limit to the number of openings for students (class size, number or instructors, financial reasons, and so on) the the colleges can use either a first come first serve system or a lottery. If a student can't keep up, there should be an evaluation process to determine if there is a addressable reason why they can't keep up. What specifically?There are a whole lot of Colleges and Universities throughout the US. ![]()
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