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Everyone has a fair chance now. A person getting into college (most of the time a big waste of time & money) should get in based on their merit, their grades, volunteer service, etc NOT the color of their skin or their ethnicity. When applying, their name should be given a number. The rest of the application should use that number. Age, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, shoud not be known. Fair is fair for all.
You know what’s “killing us”? Continuing to do things as we have been “just because that’s the way we’ve always done it.” The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result (Einstein). To keep making those who work pay for health care is like a tax on workers; to keep watching post-secondary tuition rise and do nothing is watching good minds and future taxpayers go to waste. Yet some people are fine with the American version of “let them eat cake.” I think it’s time for changes, because what we’re doing now is clearly working less and less for the average American.
CES1 You might want to look in the mirror on who is being rascist? Every student should have a fair chance based on their ability and actions. I don’t want to see a doctor, lawyer, etc. that got where they are because of color or race, sex or any other factor. I want to go to someone that has earned their way in regardless of those factors. The past is the past. Bad things happened, let’s learn from mistakes and do it better. Entitlement is not a good thing to teach our youth. Every child should have parents that encourage them in school but that is sadly not the case. I’ve known a lot of kids that didnt have good parent guidance and didn’t have any money, but because they wanted to succeed, they did it themselves through hard work. Let’s help all kids to thrive with their own tools.
Middle school nurse 1, women and people of color were abused both psychologically and physically while protesting to gain the right to vote because of the dangerously sexist/racist behavior of white men in power at the time. So if that’s what you mean by “hard work” then I think we should thank the men and women who “worked hard” to get affirmative action in place as reparation for sexism and racism. Life is not “fair.” It would definitely make some of us (mostly white) people feel better if we all “moved on, forgot history” and pretended that racism and discrimination doesn’t exist anymore. But it does. Yes, it really does exist - even today. Affirmative action just temporarily allows women and a few people of color to be at the same level as a white man of their age and financial level. It levels the playing field a bit, and that’s what makes whites angry about it.
Mes1 didn’t mean to like response. sorry
Affirmative action had great intent behind it. Very well meaning and compassionate people sought to remedy and engineer society to make inroads to level the playing field. What they didn’t consider was the impact on behavior changes when you create incentives and disincentives for excellence. Since affirmative action, African American scores have gotten worse when systemic legal discrimination has been abolished and overt racism is nothing like it was 40 years ago. This case was about race, and just today a case was filed to sue on legacy admissions. So be it. California banned race based admissions in 1996 via prop 209. UC’s use personal insight questions to center and elevate historically marginalized students admissions so there is de facto vs de jure admissions slight of hand occurring and students know how to write their statements to embed their racial status in language that is under the race conscious radar.
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I paid for my own college - under grad and grad. None of my kids had college paid for other than 2 year community college if they wanted to go that route- they all did.
How do you know he didn’t get in or didn’t get scholarships bc he was white? If he has actual prove of that he would have had a legal case.
These schools should get rid of legacy admits, it’s not fair.