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After the Supreme Court outlawed systemic racism in college admissions, the media began chattering about legacy admissions. In response a number of colleges have announced that they’re getting rid of it. (Don’t worry, donating $20 million to build a new dorm still comes with privileges. The students losing out will be from a less wealthy tier.) But here’s Biden’s Secretary of Education admitting that was a shell game.
Eliminating legacy and donor-based admissions won’t be enough to maintain diversity at colleges after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona told Axios in an interview.
Of course not. The right quota numbers won’t be hit if college admissions run on merit. What Cardona won’t let himself say (because it would be the truth) is that merit produces too many Asian admissions whereas reducing legacy admissions won’t hurt Asian students all that much.
Cardona, who appeared at the NAACP Convention in Boston, said the Biden administration is looking to education leaders for input on legal workarounds after the affirmative action decision.
“Segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation tomorrow.”
Legal workarounds also means finding ways to defy the Supreme Court’s decision. Imagine the media’s reaction if a Trump official had said that in response to a Supreme Court decision outlawing systemic racism.
Cardona praised colleges that have eliminated legacy admissions, such as Wesleyan University, but he said that alone won’t change “that there are black and brown kids that now with this affirmative action decision are going to feel like they’re not wanted.”
I didn’t realize college admissions were about “feeling wanted” as opposed to ability, talent, skill, and studiousness. You know… merit.
Of course, if we’re dealing with merit, a guy with a BS in bilingual education who wrote this D.Ed thesis on ‘Sharpening the Focus of Political Will to Address Achievement Disparities’ (I did you not) wouldn’t be running the Department of Education.
Cardona’s concerns are understandable. Without affirmative action, he’d still be yelling at third graders about Karl Marx. So instead he’s yelling, “Segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation tomorrow.”
In a 1963 inaugural speech, Democ-rat Alabama Governor George Wallace hailed “segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation forever.” The racist governor was not exactly talking about “woke” identity politics, but the shoe fits. Moreover, sounding like an endorsement of black lives matter, Wallace vowed on another occasion that he’d never be “out-[Negroed]” again. Yes, the race-obsessed George Wallace sounds like the prototype “woke” Democ-rat. Does anybody know his pronouns?
What the libs don’t say is that the test scores and grades of most legacy students are well above the scores and grades of the affirmative action students. So, even if they eliminate the legacy part of the equation, merit would still favor those who have the best chance to succeed, as it should be. What the libs are really doing is trying to punish white people out of spite for daring to think the color of one’s skin shouldn’t matter.
The government should stay out of education business for good. Zero taxes, zero funding and zero regulations. Education should be paid for by parents, students or charities.
The government should only focus on making laws and enforcing the laws to protect people from domestic criminals and foreign enemies.
Imagine the trillions of tax savings for the people, resulting in booming business and prosperity, and freedom from the criminals and terrorists.
But then again, that’s how it’s meant to be, not how it is. The very criminals and terrorists are in charge now. And they won’t stop at nothing short of utter destruction of all good things, and replacing it with nothing.
If my son were 18 rather than 36 now, I’d have him prep for the Ivy League. Even though we could barely afford to send him to a state school back then, I’d be lawyering up while he applied to Harvard. I’m looking forward to the 1st case brought to bear; some over-achieving white kid denied entrance because of his/her skin color.
Bleeding liberal institutions dry is the best way to effect change. Gotta feel it before it matters to them.
Its important to note that they’re not considering improving education for younger children K-12 in those areas and schools where kids aren’t learning. Theres no shouting for that. There are no solutions offered. The left tries to block school choice. What they want is poorly prepared but angry minority students allowed into universities where they can’t easily succeed academically but where there is little academic rigor remaining anyway but lots of angry chanting against the foes of the party in power. The same party that worked to ruin their early education….and lives.
Thats the full picture. Using minority and lower inc9me kids as political fodder to stay in power. It is racist and abusive. And dishonest.