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College Common App Drops Question About Discipline, Citing Racial Disparities
WSJ ^ | 09/30/2020 | Melissa Korn

Posted on 09/30/2020 1:34:57 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

The Common Application is scrapping a question that asks applicants to reveal whether they have been subject to disciplinary action in high school, aiming to eliminate what it says could be an obstacle for Black students considering college.

For more than a decade, the application—submitted by more than 1 million students to more than 900 colleges and universities—requested that students disclose whether they’d been found responsible for a “disciplinary violation.” That could be academic or behavioral misconduct, and would have led to probation, suspension or expulsion.

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21 posted on 09/30/2020 4:52:21 PM PDT by EEGator
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The bigotry reality of low expectations.
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Have you ever knocked off a liquor store?


23 posted on 09/30/2020 6:01:15 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Life is tough, but at least it's short.)
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Have you ever impegnated a fat white chick who is covered with tattoos ?


24 posted on 09/30/2020 6:02:14 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Life is tough, but at least it's short.)
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Doing everything for those who do nothing and contribute nothing


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