Posted on 07/04/2018 8:09:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Amy Wax, a University of Pennsylvania law professor, has come under attack and scathing criticism because she dared criticize the school's racial preferences program. In an interview with Brown University economist Glenn Loury, discussing affirmative action, Wax mentioned how racial preferences hinder the ability of blacks to succeed academically by admitting them into schools at which they are in over their heads academically. At UPenn's seventh-ranked law school, Wax said, she doesn't think that she has ever seen a black law student graduate in the top quarter of his class, and "rarely" is a black student in the top half.
That got her into deep trouble. UPenn students and faculty members charged her with racism. UPenn Law School Dean Ted Ruger stripped Wax of her duty of teaching her mandatory first-year class on civil procedures. I'm guessing that UPenn's law faculty members know Wax's statement is true but think it was something best left unsaid in today's racially charged climate. Ruger might have refuted Wax's claim. He surely has access to student records. He might have listed the number of black law students who were valedictorians and graduated in the top 10 percent of their class. He rightfully chose not to -- so as to not provide evidence for Wax's claim.
One study suggests that Wax is absolutely right about academic mismatch. In the early 1990s, the Law School Admission Council collected 27,000 law student records, representing nearly 90 percent of accredited law schools. The study found that after the first year, 51 percent of black law students ranked in the bottom tenth of their class, compared with 5 percent of white students. Two-thirds of black students were in the bottom fifth of their class. Only 10 percent of blacks were in the top half of their class. Twenty-two percent of black students in the LSAC database hadn't passed the bar exam after five attempts, compared with 3 percent of white test takers.
The University of Pennsylvania controversy highlights something very important to black people and the nation. The K-12 education that most blacks receive is grossly fraudulent. Most predominately black schools are costly yet grossly inferior to predominately white schools and are in cities where blacks hold considerable political power, such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia. In these and other cities, it's not uncommon for there to be high schools where less than 17 percent of the students test proficient in reading, and often not a single student in such schools tests proficient in math. Nonetheless, many receive high school diplomas.
It's inconceivable that college administrators are unaware that they are admitting students who are ill-prepared and have difficulty performing at the college level. There's no way that four or five years of college can repair the academic damage done to black students throughout their 13 years of primary and secondary education. Partial proof is black student performance at the postgraduate level, such as in law school. Their disadvantage is exaggerated when they are admitted to prestigious Ivy League law schools. It's as if you asked a trainer to teach you how to box and the first fight he got you was with Anthony Joshua or Floyd Mayweather. You might have the potential to ultimately be a good boxer, but you're going to get your brains beaten out before you learn how to bob and weave.
The fact that black students have low class rankings at such high-powered law schools as UPenn doesn't mean that they are stupid or uneducable. It means that they've been admitted to schools where they are in over their heads. To admit these students makes white liberals feel better about themselves. It also helps support the jobs of black and white university personnel in charge of diversity and inclusion. The question for black people is whether we can afford to have the best of our youngsters demeaned, degraded and possibly destroyed to make white liberals feel better about themselves. You might ask, "Williams, without affirmative action, what would the University of Pennsylvania Law School do about diversity and inclusion?" I'd say that's UPenn's problem.
Bingo. Having taught nearly a decade as a uni. professor, its not about educating, its all about the money.
My bet is that by puberty those children who are **institutionalized** for their schooling are “most influenced by their peers”.
Is there research measuring peer influence on those who have been homeschooled for all or nearly all of their education? ( Just wondering.) This is something that I would think education “professionals” would seriously examine.
Next....Where is the research measuring how much information is acquired in the classroom as compared to that attained **at home** due to the efforts of the parents and child?
If the majority of knowledge is acquire in the home, it is entirely possible that tanker loads of money is being spent on compulsory government **institutional** schooling that is completely ineffective.
It is possible that the only thing government institutional schools do is send home an outrageously expensive curriculum for the child and parents to follow **in the home**.
You will usually findm5% or 10% of black kids in K-12 who really want to learn, excel and get ahead. They are reachable. But the peer pressure to fail is intense as you say. Those kids who do make it out with a good education have to work hard academically and also work hard to reject the black culture of “ignorance is good” and “excellence is acting white.”
Wow...astoundingmcredentials and record of success! That is amazing. How horribly sad that she is shut down for speaking a simple truth. This continues to bode ill for the health and success of the U.S.
There is often an anti intellectual atmosphere in predominantly Black high schools where those who are academically inclined are denigrated and harassed by their peers as “acting white”.
To be fair it's stuff of the left and the right. Wingnuts on both sides.
Self reliance is the key that is inherent and god given but when generations of people are socially re-engineered they lose the ability to apply it.
as a mother of four black adopted children, we have fought this leftist demand to use the kids to fill leftist quotas.
they were at first flattered by the chasers. But one doesn’t send a 1200 kid to a 1500 school. ever.
I believe Walter Williams said the same thing.
This woman is a top notch brilliant academic, I just checked her credentials and her published pieces. Her December 2017 speech at Hilldale College—reachable on her UPenn faculty website—destroys the liberal idiocy in academics better than I’ve heard in years.
No wonder she was attacked liked a 3-legged wildebeest on the Serengeti, and eaten by the throng of hungry and butthurt lion prides in academia who hate us. Reading her writings, it’s very likely she herself is the most hated professor at UPenn—that great liberal bastion of snowflakes and their moronic mentors.
If I were DJT, I’d at the very least be considering (and carefully vetting of course) this woman for the spot on SCOTUS, she’s that good.
The poster child is Anita Hill.
She actually believed she was sombody until she got to Washington and was shown to be of subpar intellect. She was ot able to hack it
Her parents were thrilled, her principle less so. He told her bluntly that she was not ready for such a school and should wait and study for another year to prep for it.
She did and after she graduated she told him that he was right. If she had gone when the scholarship was first offered she never would have been able to do the work and would have dropped out.
You have to have the proper foundation for a high powered collage. Having only the potential will result in a waste of your time and theirs.
My theory...education requires three things, like a tripod. Parents that value education, teachers that care, and students that know they need it. If you have more than a generation that has lost this in a culture it will flounder indefinitely.
If the parents, plural, don’t care the odds of the child valuing education will drop substantially. If it becomes the norm in a community it just becomes a reinforced bias to the students that it isn’t important.
Some parents lucky enough to have a child that values education when the parents don’t can be subjected to an active discouragement of higher learning....being told, “do you think you’re better than we are?”. I’ve personally seen this. I can’t imagine growing up in such an environment.
If a teacher sees this type of environment then why should they care? Their efforts will be fruitless and they know it. So I don’t blame the schools or teachers. It is the culture of the parents that must change first. Until that happens nothing will improve.
So true. and some kids just don’t operate at those levels.
Rather have a successful child at a lesser college than a struggling one at a prestigious college.
Brian Lamb interviewed Amy Wax last week on C-Span-——what a wonderful woman,graduated med school AND law school.
Her long time “friends” at Penn treat her like **** now,and she is limited in what she can teach.
This country has gone stark,raving,mad.
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This is exactly what the commie mayor Comrade Bill DeBlASSio wants to do with NYC’s 8 elite super-academic schools. He wants to eliminate the rigorous entrance exam to these schools and moreover, reserve 20% of the seats in the schools for lower performing minority students. I said right away that the minority students who could not pass the entrance exam would soon become frustrated at their inability to do the high level work expected in those schools and would then act out and disrupt the learning for all. This article shows the “AFTER”, when such students are admitted to these high level colleges by quote instead of by academic merit. They can’t keep up with the work and drop out.
“I said right away that the minority students who could not pass the entrance exam would soon become frustrated at their inability to do the high level work expected in those schools ....”
Nah! They’ll just lower the standards!
at this point in time I think all federal funding of higher education should be ended. Immediately.
All public education pensions should be rolled into SS since these were the jerks who promoted the looting of SS for their pet leftist projects.
All private institutions with large endowments should have the endowments taxed at a substantial rate.
That money is to be given as scholarships to students who wish to pursue a post age 16 year old education. Either in trades or arts, or professions. It is theirs to use at the institution that gives them the best deal.
If I’m not mistaken, a lot of the black students at Harvard (and similar elite colleges) are foreigners, not African Americans.
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