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Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:42 am to skullhawk
Universities should have no demographic goals.
People say "That will mean that the best schools will be all Asian kids". I say, let it happen if they did the work, they get the admission.
People say "That will mean that the best schools will be all Asian kids". I say, let it happen if they did the work, they get the admission.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 10:06 am to Hateradedrink
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Nailed it. Another Bush-era GOP policy fricking this country.
Idiot. NCLB was doubled down on by Obama's Race to the Top.They're different sides of the same coin, at best.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 10:08 am to Eurocat
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Universities should have no demographic goals.
Ivies are proud of how few white people attend.
We're in the application process now, it seems every recruiting tidbit tells how "diverse" they are by how few white people are admitted.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 10:26 am to Eurocat
I've been teaching for twenty years. The one incontrovertible fact that I have learned is that if the parents are not involved in the education process, the child is set up for failure.
Some consistencies with low-performing students...
The parents do not read to the child when he is young.
The parents do not regularly discuss school with the child.
The parents place blame for lack of achievement on the institution and teachers, not on themselves or the child.
I have two daughters, one in elementary, one in high school. Both are straight A students. Both are in Gifted and in Talented Art. I read to both of them every night until they could read for themselves. I sit down with each of them every afternoon to discuss their school day, their grades, and their homework. "Do you have a test coming up?" "Did you study?" "Are you confident with the information?" "How can I help?"
Some consistencies with low-performing students...
The parents do not read to the child when he is young.
The parents do not regularly discuss school with the child.
The parents place blame for lack of achievement on the institution and teachers, not on themselves or the child.
I have two daughters, one in elementary, one in high school. Both are straight A students. Both are in Gifted and in Talented Art. I read to both of them every night until they could read for themselves. I sit down with each of them every afternoon to discuss their school day, their grades, and their homework. "Do you have a test coming up?" "Did you study?" "Are you confident with the information?" "How can I help?"
Posted on 11/15/25 at 1:30 pm to ActusHumanus
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I've been teaching for twenty years. The one incontrovertible fact that I have learned is that if the parents are not involved in the education process, the child is set up for failure. Some consistencies with low-performing students... The parents do not read to the child when he is young. The parents do not regularly discuss school with the child. The parents place blame for lack of achievement on the institution and teachers, not on themselves or the child.
I do agree with this. My parents, bless them. They only graduated from high school . My mom read to me at night as a child and they had me in summer reading programs and did not give me one chance to only stop there. If I had bad grades I was getting an arse whipping, if grades were great I would get rewarded with an N64.
This crew coming up as freshman though that had to do covid on an iPad especially in California…. I mean.. I likely would’ve fallen behind as well.. my parents could not have taught me Trig or anatomy and physiology for example
While this OP makes me sad for humanity, that group also does deserve a little grace given how their school
Went .
This post was edited on 11/15/25 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 11/15/25 at 2:51 pm to Bourre
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year. Also, it could be a kid who earned AP credits in high school so it’s their 1st semester in college but are already almost a sophomore
Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
We have to have a label for everything then when someone gets offended we wonder why.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 2:54 pm to Eurocat
I’ve also noticed a similar trend on this board over the last three years. We are losing our best and brightest.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 3:34 pm to deltadummy
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NCLB was doubled down on by Obama's Race to the Top.They're different sides of the same coin, at best.
And W's congressional point Man was Ted Kennedy, the Fredo of the family.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 3:53 pm to Eurocat
Sounds like gross exaggeration
Posted on 11/15/25 at 4:09 pm to Eurocat
I’m sure they would deny that sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, DEI have absolutely anything to do with this. 
This post was edited on 11/15/25 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 11/15/25 at 4:54 pm to ezride25
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Can they them say free Palestine?
What about "Trans rights are human rights!"?
Posted on 11/15/25 at 6:02 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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What about "Trans rights are human rights!"?
They are taught to say those things, but not much else. And they can't explain why they say it.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 6:16 pm to Eurocat
No child left behind was one of the worst decisions ever implemented by the Dept of Education. When Teachers Unions got involved and then the progressives in government labeled certain grades for certain students systemic racism. Progressivism is f’n disease for the feebleminded.
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