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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thoughts?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/09/upshot/affirmative-action-alternatives.html[/quote]
The article proposes, among others, that students whose parents are poor are given an applications boost by setting a lower bar for admission using SAT results.

I'm sitting here, peeking at DCUM, while my middle schooler works on her school work on a Saturday and practices her EC.  Outside we can hear lower-income kids play ball. The same kids bully my child on the school bus as a nerd. In school, they are given lunch ISS during which time they throw their food in my child's path. Now, according to the New York Times, these students are to be given a lower bar - perhaps this way, they can continue bullying my hardworking child while in college.

That these ideas are seriously entertained is beyond me - but needless to say, those on the receiving end will remember how they were treated by progressives.

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On the other hand, I have a client, a high schooler in foster care. She missed almost her whole 9th grade year because her mother had a mental health crisis and she had to stay home to take care of younger siblings. She was eventually removed from her home, separated from those siblings and her mother, and spent 10th grade in a variety of foster homes. She has been in the same foster home now for 11th and 12 grade and is very smart -- despite all that disrupted education, she is at the top of her class and tried (with limited success) to manage DCPS's dual enrollment program with no adult help. Her school offers no AP classes.

I don't think she did that great on the SATs, but she would absolutely be an asset to any college (even if she needs some tutoring to make up for holes in her ed background).[/quote]

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