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<p>I am already a sophomore in university, so I have no excuse for taking recourse to a thesaurus or SAT word-book. At some point in your life, you will converse with individuals who speak and write in this manner, and, as such, avoid colloquial expressions. It may seem pompous, grandiloquent, bombastic, or those choice set of words you used to describe me in your previous posts, but you need to deal with it.</p>
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<p>I did not come to this forum to attract, I came for serious discussion. I would assume that proper rhetoric and syntactical awareness are preconditions to such discourse, and such criteria is not too demanding given that the majority of posters aspire to be students at Harvard and so on.</p>
<p>race: black
gender: female
parents education: Masters
SAT score: 1370
GPA: 4.1
class rank: 38
affirmative action based on race; good or bad? Bad.
affirmative action based on economic background? it depends, what color are they?</p>
<p>Some of you really need to just go to a party, and smoke some weed, and discover the planet earth. As ive gotten older, ive tried to be a liberal pacifist, but some of you kids seriously remind me of why i used to put gum in that smart asian kids hair who sat infront of me.</p>
<p>Untitled, cheer up mate! You have a right to express you point of view. However, please don't generalize. I have very good friends who are Chinese who don't share your point of view. One of them is a computer science professor at the University of Maryland. He also teaches for a non-profit on the weekends. The purpose of the non-profit is to help minority kids get technical and workforce skills.</p>
<p>I believe that AA should not be abused; however, I will not say that it is wrong and that I hate it. Colin Powell never would have risen to world prominence had it not been for AA.
Correspondingly, you can check Black Enterprise and many other magazines about prominent blacks who benefited immensely from AA. They now serve as mentors for their respective communities. </p>
<p>Incidentally, I believe that key to success is not being just smart or how much you get on the SAT, or GRE; it is the indefatigable urge to beat the odds.</p>
<p>Rollo, you spelled my name wrong again....:(</p>
<p>I agree with some of what you said. I support a HUGE tax raise and HUGE spending on social programs, to get the minorties "quality" K-12 education, then we can compete equally.:)</p>
<p>You see the system is racist to minorities. It gives individuals who cant read and write at the 10th grade level HS diplomas. It does not require national exams before giving HS diplomas. </p>
<p>If they really cared about minorities they would reform the public school system. AA is just a distraction from the real problem.</p>
<p>I agree that fixing public education (more $$, socialization?) is probably the long-term answer to the problem, but AA at least does something to compensate for existing inequalities.</p>
<p>Throwing $$ at the public school system won't fix it; the extra $$ will just increse corruption. There needs to be reform in the actual eduaction of students and therefore the teacher's unions need to be weakened because in some states the teacher's union is way too powerful and this allows incompetent eduactors to stay within the system. At the local level, school systems have to stop wasting money on frivolous items such as $900,000 megatron scoreboards (a school in Texas did this) and expensive football fields and punish school administators who abuse the money . Some of the money saved should be diverted to other sports programs (soccer, field hockey, lacrosse) and the remainder to improving facilites (computer labs, desks, ece, after-school tutoring) and creating school-based programs for children so they don't have to be on the street ibefore parents come home or sit around and do nothing for their minds. Most importantly, parents in destitute school districts must become more involved with the education of their children at all stages (infancy, pre-school, elementry, etc.) because the parents will have the largest influence on children.</p>
<p>I agree that it certainly matters where the money goes (duh), but whatever we do will require $$ nonetheless, especially if we want to guarantee everyone a good education.</p>