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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 224: The Congressional Contempt for Political Buggery
red sox 777 05/16/19 4:39:23 PM #416:	Nelson_Mandela posted... Non-abortion link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-score-to-capture-social-and-economic-background-11557999000 As an Ivy League graduate (with honors) who grew up in poverty, this absolutely fucking infuriates me. Weighing "adversity" in what are supposed to be the most objective assessments of ability is what will lead to the collapse of our civilization. The best should be rewarded, no matter what their background. Are we going to now give extra points to sports teams who employ the most disadvantaged players (growing up)? This has already been gamed. Rich parents "move" the family to poor neighborhoods when their child enters high school, so that their child can easily be valedictorian and also can claim to come from a poor area. All this kind of bad policy will do is make it harder than it already is for genuine poor kids to get into good colleges, because they will increasingly be forced to compete, during high school, with rich kids and their families who are exploiting the system. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! <cite>red sox 777 posted [p:921984626] in Politics C... [t:77687499]...</cite> <quote><cite>Nelson_Mandela posted...</cite> <quote>Non-abortion link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-to-give-students-adversity-score-to-capture-social-and-economic-background-11557999000 As an Ivy League graduate (with honors) who grew up in poverty, this absolutely fucking infuriates me. Weighing "adversity" in what are supposed to be the most objective assessments of ability is what will lead to the collapse of our civilization. The best should be rewarded, no matter what their background. Are we going to now give extra points to sports teams who employ the most disadvantaged players (growing up)?</quote> This has already been gamed. Rich parents "move" the family to poor neighborhoods when their child enters high school, so that their child can easily be valedictorian and also can claim to come from a poor area. All this kind of bad policy will do is make it harder than it already is for genuine poor kids to get into good colleges, because they will increasingly be forced to compete, during high school, with rich kids and their families who are exploiting the system. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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