Affirmative Action

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covering them up and pretending they do not exist, and allowing ourselves to avoid what it takes to make a dent in them--augmenting Head Start, improving high schools and spending more equally among schools" (Jacoby 36). The implication of racial preference has given high schools permission to replace the tradition of achievement with a culture of entitlement. The feeling of the absence of enthusiasm for achievement is illustrated by John O'Sulllivan editor of the National Review hen he said, "Restoring high standards in high school will take time; but it will not even begin until the corrupting influence of racial preference is removed". By not admitting under qualified minority students to America's premier universities, for example Stanford, hey have not been sent to exile. There are an enormous amount of top quality schools which they can attend and still achieve their dreams. Students admitted under the plan are accepted with SAT scores 200 to 300 points lower than that of ...

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entrance as a test of a system's excellence. The most important thing is the number of students who graduate with good marks. Once admitted, the performance among students and other students differs. Among white and Asian American students, at lest 80 percent of them graduate within 5 years. Less than half of the enrolled African American students graduate in that amount of time. In the class of 1990 admitted at UCLA, the average Caucasian grade was just above a B while the African American average was just above a C. It is unreasonable to think that the students admitted through will be bel to produce the same quality work that the better qualified students can. Studies ...

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