The OLD Affirmative Action for rich white kids was legacy admissions — parents legally (if not ethically) paying huge donations to schools they had once attended in the past, and getting special consideration for their kids while whining about minorities getting any remedial assistance in overcoming systemic disadvantages.
The NEW Affirmative Action for rich white kids: outright bribery and cheating and damn the legal niceties. And still whining about any remedial assistance in overcoming systemic disadvantages for those who actually need it.
Solution: Parents and corrupt school officials in jail and their cheating kids expelled and/or diplomas revoked.
At one time, it was thot that America couldn’t afford free secondary schooling for all its kids. In the early 1900s, you could get a certificate of completion if you finished the 8th grade, and for most kids, that’s where it ended. But we could afford it, and did! Furthermore, somewhere toward the end of the 20th Century, we passed the point where we had a higher percentage of kids going to college than went to high school at the beginning.
Isn’t it time to recognize that, in the Age of Information, college too should be free and available to all? There’s so much more to know, and so many more opportunities to use it to advance human progress, we should treat it as a worthy investment in the future of civilization.
Let us not forget the Trade Schools just as important and train for jobs that are needed and they pay well. Not everyone can go to college or want to. Trade Schools.
Just a quick observation – has anyone talked to the kids that are the subject? Did they know about it? If so, did they approve or even accept it as ‘normal’? When I was getting my political education in 1960s Chicago, bribes were for lawyers to pass on to judges, for avoiding compliance with building codes or to buy a $25 pencil from the cop who stopped you. Some of these alleged bribes are for more than the tuition at these colleges. Is this the parent’s way of saying that they are willing to prop up a congenital idiot for the rest of their life? 8^(
Illogical. The problem goes much deeper. If somebody has the money, they will spend it for their own good. Everybody would do that. But, why would people start into live as billionaires and others as poor, and the system is still pretending that it is based on “equal rights”, “everybody can make it” and “only your own preformance counts”? The big T was born rich, even very rich. As an entrepreneur, he was a total loser, but after several bankruptcies and having squandered millions of dollars, he was still a multi-millionaire based on Dad’s money. Every idiot could have done this, and many idiots would even have acted less exploitative, less molesting and less unsympathetic.
I liked the suggestion that schools who reject more than 90% of applicants be allowed to admit 10% based on a perfectly public bidding process from among those who are qualified (but didn’t get in otherwise). These schools aren’t admitting all the very best because there’s no room for all of them. So the quality of those admitted would change little or not at all, it would raise a bit of money for the school, it would short-circuit all kinds of scams and schemes and it would allow rich parents to legally influence admission only if their kids were qualified.
This would still leave open “qualified” as a place where cheating could happen, but I consider that to be a self-limiting problem: If you get in and you can’t cut it, out you go!
DD Wiz Premium Member about 5 years ago
The OLD Affirmative Action for rich white kids was legacy admissions — parents legally (if not ethically) paying huge donations to schools they had once attended in the past, and getting special consideration for their kids while whining about minorities getting any remedial assistance in overcoming systemic disadvantages.
The NEW Affirmative Action for rich white kids: outright bribery and cheating and damn the legal niceties. And still whining about any remedial assistance in overcoming systemic disadvantages for those who actually need it.
Solution: Parents and corrupt school officials in jail and their cheating kids expelled and/or diplomas revoked.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Of course for every minority student who makes it in, there is some white kid complaining their place was stolen by “them”.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 5 years ago
Nothing here is incorrect, but it’s a little late in the scandal for such a basic observation.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 5 years ago
At one time, it was thot that America couldn’t afford free secondary schooling for all its kids. In the early 1900s, you could get a certificate of completion if you finished the 8th grade, and for most kids, that’s where it ended. But we could afford it, and did! Furthermore, somewhere toward the end of the 20th Century, we passed the point where we had a higher percentage of kids going to college than went to high school at the beginning.
Isn’t it time to recognize that, in the Age of Information, college too should be free and available to all? There’s so much more to know, and so many more opportunities to use it to advance human progress, we should treat it as a worthy investment in the future of civilization.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
Let us not forget the Trade Schools just as important and train for jobs that are needed and they pay well. Not everyone can go to college or want to. Trade Schools.
1MadHat Premium Member about 5 years ago
Just a quick observation – has anyone talked to the kids that are the subject? Did they know about it? If so, did they approve or even accept it as ‘normal’? When I was getting my political education in 1960s Chicago, bribes were for lawyers to pass on to judges, for avoiding compliance with building codes or to buy a $25 pencil from the cop who stopped you. Some of these alleged bribes are for more than the tuition at these colleges. Is this the parent’s way of saying that they are willing to prop up a congenital idiot for the rest of their life? 8^(
Spock about 5 years ago
Illogical. The problem goes much deeper. If somebody has the money, they will spend it for their own good. Everybody would do that. But, why would people start into live as billionaires and others as poor, and the system is still pretending that it is based on “equal rights”, “everybody can make it” and “only your own preformance counts”? The big T was born rich, even very rich. As an entrepreneur, he was a total loser, but after several bankruptcies and having squandered millions of dollars, he was still a multi-millionaire based on Dad’s money. Every idiot could have done this, and many idiots would even have acted less exploitative, less molesting and less unsympathetic.
Concretionist about 5 years ago
I liked the suggestion that schools who reject more than 90% of applicants be allowed to admit 10% based on a perfectly public bidding process from among those who are qualified (but didn’t get in otherwise). These schools aren’t admitting all the very best because there’s no room for all of them. So the quality of those admitted would change little or not at all, it would raise a bit of money for the school, it would short-circuit all kinds of scams and schemes and it would allow rich parents to legally influence admission only if their kids were qualified.
This would still leave open “qualified” as a place where cheating could happen, but I consider that to be a self-limiting problem: If you get in and you can’t cut it, out you go!
robnvon Premium Member about 5 years ago
Meretricious white folks have always outshone everything and everyone even a drunk girl raped behind a dumpster.