That's the whole point of Affirmative Action: to produce a group of people who know, deep in their hearts, that the only reason they have the jobs they hold, is because of AA, and the only hope they have of staying in the middle class is to make sure, by whatever means necessary, that the Democrats retain enough control to prevent even discussion of the abolition of affirmative action.
Making sure that smart black kids receive inferior eduction is part of the plan.
I knew a smart young black man. He grew up used to being the smartest guy in his peer group, and went to work in a place where he was smarter than most of the white guys he worked with.
Then he went to get his masters degree in engineering at UC Berkley, and found himself in a peer group where he was the LEAST smart. His ego shriveled up and he left in less than a year.
Lol.
My mother and sister were 10 times smarter than me. My father was a world class athlete and a wonderful artist, charcoal and oil. My sister was also an artist. My mother became a lawyer at 60 years old.
I wasn't anything spectacular, just pretty good at many things. I ALWAYS knew my limitations. It was a good thing.
ONE thing I always knew: there is ALWAYS someone SMARTER. Always.
BTW, my husband was a mechanical engineer with his degree from Berkeley. He was SO smart. He said that AA was in force to get WOMEN into engineering jobs. It was pretty much of a failure until the engineering world INVENTED jobs for women: "urban" engineer, whatever that was. There are STILL so few women engineers. It just seems to be a male job. When women didn't make it in the engineering field, it was blamed on, you guessed it, male chauvinism. Lol. SUCH a pathetic thing, that ENTIRE affirmative action crap.
Cream always rises to the top; that's the law of physics. Works for people too.
Some kids may find themselves at the top of the class most of their lives. It’s important (IMHO) to knock them down a few pegs once in a while. ;-)
I’m serious. As a parent, I constantly tell my kids: “Remember, no matter how much you think you know, there’s always someone out there who knows more (or can do better).”
That probably sounds mean. But, I think these stories here of students losing their self-esteem and dropping out support my idea. If you never fail, and no one has ever criticized your work, then what happens the first time you do fail?