SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships

Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by pesmhey on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:19PM (#19934858)

Not going on vacation is not a hardship.

Edit: This guy’s parents might have actually been through some shit. Asia was not a nice place over the last century. If he had said something like ‘my parents escaped pol pot’ or something ummmm, actually horrendous, then, I mean, that’s a hardship. And had this commenter framed it in that way, then it gives a whole other dimension to the discussion. But he didn’t.

I’m going to repeat this for anyone spoiled enough by western society to ever say this:

The lack of vacations is not a fucking hardship.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:44PM (#19935029)

Hardship is relative. There's always someone who's had it harder than you. His parents sacrificed things to get him the resources he needed to succeed, is his point. They sacrificed things that the parents of other kids did not.

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by kaitai on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:28PM (#19935686)

People are starting at different points. His parents were physically able to do what they did. If his dad had been disabled, or dead, he wouldn't have been able to commute for 4 hours. Would that make his dad less virtuous?

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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:29AM (#19937806)

I don't recall saying anything about virtue.

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