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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by tobias_smollett on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:14PM (#24725398)
When I was finishing my undergraduate studies, I was confused about why African American students I knew (social circle, roommates, class projects) were all performing so poorly academically. It took a few years to realize that the African American students who would have fit in perfectly in my classes all went to a higher ranked school, and my school had to reach down to "meet their numbers".

The students who get bumped up to a better school (and graduate) end up getting better paying jobs, but it must cause a lot of people to form negative stereotypes along the way.

Maybe a better solution would be to provide extra help to disadvantaged groups before students are academically segregated.

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by slg on Thursday October 08, 2020 @08:34PM (#24725509)
>Maybe a better solution would be to provide extra help to disadvantaged groups before students are academically segregated.

Yes, the better approach is to help this kids as early as possible. However the problem is that kids are academically segregated from the very start by the quality of their school district. I am all for fixing that.

I might be more willing to believe this academic segregation is a genuine concern from this administration if they actually made any effort at improving these poor districts instead of seemingly ignoring the problem and giving parents the choice to simply abandon these school districts.

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Re:Justice Department sues Yale for illegal practices in adm... by username90 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:48PM (#24725904)
If your goal is to make everyone think that black people are less intelligent then there are few better ways than to accept less capable black people into basically every college in the entire USA. Even die hard liberals will have unconscious bias from knowing that the black people were mostly the worst in every class they took.
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