In the Good Ole USofA we have many schools that are High Caliber Educational Institutions and they ought to be admired...Or ought they to be?
Here is what is happening to Educational Excellence in many cities in the Good Ole USofA...
Ø Alarm bells are going off because Asian students were being awarded admittance to Elite Public High Schools at a much higher rate than are other ethnic group applicants.
Ø Entrance Exams are seen as the reason this is happening and this happening is being seen as unacceptable.
Ø In the interest of Diversity attempts are being made to eliminate the Entrance Exams for these schools to ensure that more other ethnic group applicants are admitted.
Ø In fact Asian admissions have fallen in some school districts after admissions standards for Gifted and Talented Programs were changed by broadening the definition of “gifted,” (among other adjustments) and watering down Selection Criteria.
Ø Affirmative Action Advocates contend that academically rigorous schools should be more focused on achieving racial balance and less focused on maintaining high standards.
Asians are being blamed for outperforming others. That can’t be...Or can it be?
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It is now time for Fella to get to work on the Foolishness of all of this Silliness...
Interview Question: Why is it that you were able to pass the very stringent entrance exam to get into this High Caliber Educational Institution when so many others failed?
Interview Question Answer: I studied very hard, concentrated on my weaknesses with a view to eliminating them and worked at minimum wage jobs which gave me an understanding of what it was like to try and get through life without a good education. I saw what it was like to be poor and I determined to do everything within my power to see that I made a success of myself.
Interview Questioner Turns from the Interviewee and With His Hand Cupped Beside the Head of the Microphone Says to the Camera: There you have it directly from the mouth of an Accepted Student, proof that he used trickery to move himself ahead of Less Qualified Applicants.
What we need more of in the Good Ole USofA is Increased Mediocrity...
Ø We need fewer Brain Surgeons who are able to find their mouths when they eat ice cream cones. We need to open up this important segment of our medical education system to Brain Surgeons who smash ice cream cones into their foreheads more often than not.
Ø We need to start presenting First Place Trophies to those of us that finish last in life’s never ending race.
Ø We need more Astronauts who are too fat to fit through the hatch when it comes time to go fix that key thingie on the outside of the Space Lab.
Mottos of the Future: Pick your favorite...
Ø Failure must be made more acceptable!
Ø Poor performance needs to have its negative stigma removed!
Ø People who can’t Cut the Mustard are people too!
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
3 comments:
Good morning: before Katrina the Times Picayune use to publish the photos of the High School grads who were the valedictorian of each school. I think they did it for the nonpublic and public but at least for the public. For a while that was stopped as most were Asian students in public schools. There was no letters to editors to accomplish this but surely someone spoke to paper and it was done. It was not an attempt to diminish educational excellence just not to remind readers who had it.
Have you read about the Aisian students that are suing Harvard for the very reasons you mention in your blog.... interesting!
I found another article Entrance Exam Controversy. This paragraph is especially interesting … “Whites have traditionally been the losers from affirmative action. Proponents sometimes justify this as the price to be paid for the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. Whatever the merits of this argument, the Asian-American experience is hard to squeeze into the box of racial privilege.”
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