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Originally posted by jonasha
There's some truth to people being pushed into curricula that are way too fast for them and they end up falling behind even more, maybe even reducing their confidence/desire in learning. But that isn't an issue with affirmative action, it's more of the state government not wanting to hold back students another year because it looks bad statistically. Affirmative action doesn't really impact High School so that's a non related issue.
When you're in College, it is ultimately up to you to keep up on courses or suffer bad grades. Colleges should provide some sort of tutoring or mentoring to help, but they can't force students to study or get good grades. Affirmative action only helps give people from shaky backgrounds a chance to enter a high educational field that they otherwise would never get the opportunity to. What those who benefit from AA do with that chance is up to them. Just because black Americans don't score as highly as their white counterparts does not mean that it's okay to make it harder for them to get entrance to a particular College.
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UT and other top schools have said that race and ethnicity comes in last and even people who would get AA still get denied despite having top scores.
The students that get into Harvard are not really falling behind because of their race. This guy is speaking out of his ass.
What we should be worrying about are people who get into these schools because they're wealthy. Bush Jr went to Yale because of daddies money. Where is the uproar on financial based admissions?