Yup. That about sums it up…
Caltech admissions of Asians (where AA is illegal) 43%, significantly up from years past.
Harvard, 18%. Down from years past.
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Flu contrary to the article, liberals can handle the Asian factor very well. It’s just that we want a kinder, gentler society. However, we can compete very well in a hyper competitive setting if that’s what people want.
I think White Trump supporters live in the past. There are misinformed about the globalized world so they think tactics of the past continue to work.
Case in point, the new point based immigration proposal is great for upper middle class Asians. They will be able to qualify for green cards at the expense of family immigration and that will raise the bar. Top American cities will become like Vancouver and Toronto. As an educated Asian, enjoy it it. But don’t fool yourself into thinking that Trump and his folks support merit. Let the future happen and the xenophobic backlash will be swift.
Flu, you wisely said before that people are all for merit until other people are more qualified.[/quote]
That’s bullshit… If you really were kinder and gentler and really cared about the disadvantaged, you wouldn’t be taking the easy way out and suggesting an administrative fix (IE lowering the academic standard) to let some people qualify…because if you really did care about their long term future, you would know that if you were to lower the standard, eventually those otherwise ill-prepared people would wash out/flunk out anyway, because they would be ill-prepared for the real world that demands qualified candidates. And then, you would be a in a predicament that you would have to extend that double standard beyond just college, to the workforce and on and on, creating in even more double standards.
If you really were kinder and gentler, you would realize that the only real way to solve this problem, is to catch the disadvantaged when they are young, and give them the necessary support for a good education, when their parents and their environment can’t. You would spend a considerable amount of your free time volunteering to teach those disadvantaged while they are young, so they can catch up by their own merit and effort, such that when it came time to adulthood like college admissions/employment, they can compete based on their merit they built themselves (with your initial help)… So that no double standard would need to exist at the higher/adult level, and no one can question whether the adult really was qualified or not. You would do this, especially if you were retired or semi-retired, and didn’t have that much of a busy schedule in your own life, for the better-ment of those disadvantaged that you care so much about.
Until this year, I spent 6-8hrs per week teaching robotics, STEM science/math to kids, mainly because there are lot of kids who don’t have parents that have the educational level to teach them…Even in a district that CarmelV, you find out the majority of parents, their math/science skills/ability start to taper off around 4th-5th grade level… Example: some parents had to review what “order of operations” are in math, something they teach starting end of 4th beginning of 5th her. 30minutes-1hour of math lesson to 25+kid by one teacher is not going to cut it for most kids that don’t have the benefit of a parent that can supplement in class instructions.S a lot of kids, irrespective of color, are at a disadvantage.
If you really really care about the disadvantaged, ask yourself how much time are you willing put into helping out the disadvantaged kids each week…And not having a STEM background is not an excuse for not doing it. I work with one parent volunteer who had no formal engineering/stem training. Her career was in human resources. She ended up learning everything she avoided learning when she was a student, in order to teach. Her teams i Science Olympia usually does pretty well, considering it’s a team of elementary school kids that ends up competing against junior high teams…and her science field day teams, at worst, comes in 3rd or 2nd, and usually comes in first. What is surprising is, while my kid’s class, there’s a lot of parents that volunteer to teach, that supplements those at a disadvantage…..There’s a lot less volunteers kids 5 years younger…It’s almost like pulling hair. I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving education strictly to the hands of public schools. What really makes a difference between a lot of these high performing school districts and the not-so-high performing school districts have less to do with the teachers and the school, and much more to do with how much the parents are involved. We pick up a lot of temporary students in rental communities for our schools that don’t permanently stay in our school, and they end up doing just as well because the efforts of the rest of the parents involved.
The time you spend coming to this blog to vent about Donald Trump, you could actually be doing something that actually benefits the people you say should be helped.
