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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At bottom, Justice O'Connor's rationale for affirmative action was that leaders come from elite institutions and more minorities need to attend elite institutions.  So a bump up for a kid qualified for Wayne State or Michigan State based on grades and scores but not Michigan will get him or her into Michigan.  It's a very snobby, elitist perspective.  If your nonURM kid's ox is being gored by that displacement, you won't like it.  But if your nonURM kid stil gets in, you'll profess not to care and talk up the virtues of diversity.  Taking a public position against affirmative action is socially very very risky.[/quote]

As long as people continue to believe that more minorities at an elite school make it less elite, you're safe.

Just keep your talk to the undesirable minorities. Not a whole lot of guesswork needed there. [/quote]
It's not that people believe "undesirable minorities' in and of themselves make the school less elite, it's that when you lower the academic standards for minorities so they can get in, then you make the school less elite. You're bringing down the average GPA and scores of the entering class. [/quote]

Very soon - if we're not there already - we're going to have to lower standards for everyone at every level. And that's because most everyone will be unable to meet higher standards and/or unable to pay for it. Read what Harvard's president had to say about it.

http://freakonomics.com/2015/09/03/the-president-of-harvard-will-see-you-now-full-transcript/

Go about three-fourths of the way down to where she talks about endowments and the importance of public education.

You people aren't doing the undesirable majority any favors. [/quote]

We already have. Have you heard about middle and high school "do overs" and other shenanigans in testing?[/quote]

Look up the MCPS 50% rule.  And this is one of the "best" school systems around.

lol[/quote]
I just looked it up. Apparently, teachers are prohibited from given less than 50% if the student made any effort at all. So, if there are 50 math problems and the kid gets only one or two correct, he still gets a 50%. The dumbing down of America.[/quote]

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