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Affirmative Action In College Grading
http://leomcneil.net/2014/07/22/affirmative-action-in-college-grading/ ^ | July 22, 2014 | Leo McNeil

Posted on 07/22/2014 4:30:55 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil

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1 posted on 07/22/2014 4:30:55 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
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To: LeoMcNeil

If that’s the case, why bother with getting an ‘education’ at all?


2 posted on 07/22/2014 4:38:38 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: LeoMcNeil

This is upsetting, to say the least :-(

Yet another uncomfortable sign of some sort of looming apocalypse.


3 posted on 07/22/2014 4:40:21 AM PDT by Bobalu (Israel is the most long-suffering and peace loving nation on Earth.)
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To: LeoMcNeil

Typical pointy-headed, addle-brained, drug-saturated, soporific libtard.

It would probably work ok in Liberal Arts courses, where they teach “gender studies”, “womyn’s studies”, “black history”, and other pretend and pretentious nonsense, but God help us if this kind of thinking ever prevails in Medical or Engineering schools.


4 posted on 07/22/2014 4:40:31 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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Isn’t this a form of profiling?

Last i checked, profiling was against the Law - - - .


5 posted on 07/22/2014 4:45:39 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SMARTY

Yes, I look forward to driving over a bridge designed and built by someone who got a degree and job because of color, not intelligence.


6 posted on 07/22/2014 4:47:02 AM PDT by kevslisababy
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7 posted on 07/22/2014 4:50:31 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: kevslisababy

you already have... trust me.


8 posted on 07/22/2014 4:51:16 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: LeoMcNeil

Just another reason I’like never let a Doctor or other “professional” from some “protected group” near me.


9 posted on 07/22/2014 4:52:05 AM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Westbrook

it does, trust me.


10 posted on 07/22/2014 4:52:32 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: LeoMcNeil
"This move might keep minorities in school but they’ll suffer for it later. Eventually the free market is going to figure out that minorities with A’s haven’t really earned them."

The obvious solution to this is to destroy the free market and institute government control of everything - something the Left is working on all fronts to achieve.

11 posted on 07/22/2014 4:52:47 AM PDT by Truth29
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Suppose an employer is considering an applicant who has a diploma from this school. Is it worth the paper it is printed on? Does the race of the applicant and the GPA need to be RE-computed to READJUST for racial bias? How many turns around this liberal shibboleth do we make before all give it up as a bad joke?

THEN, consider a genuine work-a-holic minority student who has EARNED their credentials? What do they face in the light of this racial adjustment of grades? “Back to the plantation with you”, this is for the RACE not for the individual!


12 posted on 07/22/2014 4:53:49 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: LeoMcNeil
With 2 kids in college, *part* of me wants to say, 'DO IT, DO IT'. The load of affirmative action, white-privilege BS which they are being shoveled is astounding.

Maybe a little taste of what racism really is will hit a resounding note when an A grade goes to a black student who did nothing vs a white student who stayed up all night putting the finishing touches on an essay and studied on weekends for an exam.

Welcome to our world, kids.

13 posted on 07/22/2014 4:54:08 AM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: kevslisababy

Or having a surgical procedure done by one of these ‘graduates’


14 posted on 07/22/2014 4:57:07 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Affirmative action has already made the black unemployable, or at the very least suspect until they prove themselves in a real world environment. I know I wouldn’t hire one. After all, they didn’t earn their college scores.


15 posted on 07/22/2014 4:59:04 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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I had a professor in school who only gave two grades, A’s and incompletes. He saw the whole grading system as pointless and this was his way of dealing with it. Made for a pretty good GPA but in the 30+ years since graduation nobody has been interested in my GPA.


16 posted on 07/22/2014 5:00:28 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: Truth29
"Eventually the free market is going to figure out that minorities with A’s College Degrees haven’t really earned them."


17 posted on 07/22/2014 5:03:44 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: LeoMcNeil

This is funny... remember the affirmative action bake sale brouhaha?

http://dailybruin.com/2013/10/25/controversial-bake-sale-at-ucla-prompts-protest/


18 posted on 07/22/2014 5:04:42 AM PDT by Aunt Polgara
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In subjects like Gender Studies and Black History, I assume the vast (vast) majority of students get As anyway. Not so in disciplines [note the difference in terminology] like Science and Engineering. Nothing would sink one of those programs faster than if employers or Grad schools lose confidence in the quality of the graduates.

The problem is that these Libtard ideas are the intellectual equivalent of weeds. On first blush, you dismiss it out of hand as crazy or impractical. Yet, a few years later, you look around and see it being embraced everywhere.


19 posted on 07/22/2014 5:09:48 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: LeoMcNeil

Good! Great! Love it! Sure! Right!

In response, every company, if they don’t already,
reinstate employment applicant examinations.

With a twist, have the examinations printed in
cursive fonts!


20 posted on 07/22/2014 5:10:15 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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