Comments on: New college admission standards recommendation to further diversity at the high school level

By: Gratis Date Sider Ski

Gratis Date Sider Ski — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:56:54 +0000

[…] New college admission standards recommendation to further diversity at the high school level — You can worry about where to eat on your Aspen ski vacation later. Diversity is a ruse to force. […]

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:14:21 +0000

Frog.

Tucker Carlson spilled the beans on this program on his show. He thought it was done under the Obama administration to increase diversity.

By: Frog

Frog — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 23:37:47 +0000

I just learned from a usually accurate source the FAA is engaged in grotesque AffirmAction. Applicants to become air traffic controllers (ATC) are assigned points towards a grade necessary for admission to ATC training.
Turns out one is awarded ten points for being a high school athlete, but only two points for having any aeronautical knowledge or experience, such as having a private pilot license ( granted by the FAA, which runs the ATC school !!)

This good news will make me fly commercially even less.

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:59:20 +0000

Some fifty years ago the Coleman Report found that the most important variable in how kids do in grade school is the education and occupation of their parents. The next important variable is the parents of the other kids in the room. That is why putting your kids in schools with mostly poor kids is a bad idea. Middle class parents understand this.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:01:10 +0000

J.J.
That is funny. I went to a state school with the same admission requirement. The first day of school all the freshmen assembled in the auditorium for a presentation and the President of the university addressed the students and told them to shake hands with the person on either side of them. He said that you better get to know them now because by the next semester half you you will be gone. They were ruthless in culling the student body. I’m an EE and the head of the department told us that is we didn’t study and make good grades, they would replace us with somebody who would. They weren’t joking either.

By: Avi

Avi — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:54:41 +0000

Frequently the beneficiaries of AA are not only the better off members of the group but more and more often frauds.
Jamaican Americans and African children of dictators and mixed race white looking people like Val Jarrett or Obama types steal the set asides

By: n.n

n.n — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:58:43 +0000

Diversity is “color” judgment or discrimination, a progressive form of racism, sexism, etc., which enables political, social, and legal leverage, while ignoring and often normalizing the purported problems (e.g. bias, prejudice). Another wicked solution a la Pro-Choice, selective, opportunistic, and congruent, but lower in order than elective abortion (capital punishment of the wholly innocent, disarmed, dismembered, decapitated, and denied a voice to protest), first, and slavery (redistributive an dependent change), second. Another euphemism that denies its poor character at best, and liberalism (i.e. divergence) at worst. Principles matter.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:10:39 +0000

Hah – if I could edit comments, I would add that they obviously believe Garrison Keillor’s old saw that “all of the children are above average.”

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:09:17 +0000

J.J. Says:
June 3rd, 2018 at 12:14 am
Diversity is a ruse to force equal outcomes. They believe that all people are equally talented and able to do college work. In their eyes the only reason perfect proportions of the races aren’t attending college is because of racism or discrimination.
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At a blog post I read today but can no longer find, the author made the point (roughly paraphrased) that, before the advent of Affirmative Action’s landslide admittance rates, minorities could look at their members who DID succeed in college (or the professions) and see very highly talented individuals (because they had to not only meet, but often exceed, the standards of their peers).
So, they made the “cargo cult” connection that the determinant of success was simply attendance at college, and NOT the innate ability or hard work of the graduates.
So when they got admitted (whether by merit or AA), they naturally expected to do just as well in classes and on graduation as the earlier role models.
Well — sad to say — most people really are just average, and when the average person doesn’t get above-average results, it just HAS to be someone else’s fault.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 04:14:03 +0000

Diversity is a ruse to force equal outcomes. They believe that all people are equally talented and able to do college work. In their eyes the only reason perfect proportions of the races aren’t attending college is because of racism or discrimination. Oh, that it were true. Then their cockamamie plans might be worth something.

In the 1950s my state university allowed all in state high school graduates with a C average or better to matriculate. No other requirements. The weeding out was done in the first two years. Those who graduated were those able to do the work. A simple meritocracy.

I went to college to escape being drafted. I stayed in college because I could do the work. I graduated with a degree in oil exploration geology. I had several job offers waiting on graduation. (I was still single, the Korean War was still on, and that made me draft bait.) When my draft notice arrived at my mother’s residence (far from where I was working in the oil patch) she tipped me off and I quickly enlisted in the Navy. When my draft notice actually got to me, I already had a report date for Navy OCS.

College is not a secret ticket to success. For me life has been a never ending education. Training, testing, study, and staying on top of the requirements of the Navy/airline pilot profession continued until the day I retired. The college degree was a base on which to build. It seems to me that many people seem to think that getting the degree is a magic ticket to success. Nope, it’s only the beginning. And that’s why college should be about meritocracy and not diversity.