Should schools scrap diversity targets ?

[Anonymous]

Here is the irony. At the margin, when the admission office rate the families for admission they look at two things. 1. What is the color of their skin 2. What is their capacity to donate to school. The first one will help to boost diversity indicators, the second one to boost school finances. Easy peasy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the irony. At the margin, when the admission office rate the families for admission they look at two things. 1. What is the color of their skin 2. What is their capacity to donate to school. The first one will help to boost diversity indicators, the second one to boost school finances. Easy peasy.

For #1, that only matters if the school feels a the candidates skin color is underrepresented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it your contention that in this country whites with less money are treated worse by law enforcement and similar entities than visible minorities with more money?

No, whites are not treated as bad as nonwhites.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is the irony. At the margin, when the admission office rate the families for admission they look at two things. 1. What is the color of their skin 2. What is their capacity to donate to school. The first one will help to boost diversity indicators, the second one to boost school finances. Easy peasy.

For #1, that only matters if the school feels a the candidates skin color is underrepresented.

Schools publish the percent of non Caucasian children as a measure of diversity. They love to raise that number.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What does "fair" even mean?

For instance, if there is a single slot. Is it ok to admit a rich Asian family instead of a rich white family? How do you decide that. Is it even ethically correct to say that you are improving diversity by doing this?

Define Asian and define white.

Because who you assume is Asian might identify as white and who you assume is white might identify as something else.

And also, there is a lot more to diversity than just race.

And more often than not when it comes to private school admissions, race is not the defining factor.

What you are saying does not apply in my private kids school. Race is important in admissions. And it is fully recognized in progressive schools. They do not want a 100 percent class of white kids. Nothing wrong either way but they factor in race for admissions.

I am white and I would not want to send my kid to an all white school. Thenworld is not all white. DC is majority non-white.