Monica Harris's essay was inspiring. I was enlightened by her experience with affirmative action as a good thing, something which really worked to bring opportunities to qualified but disenfranchised people of color. The concept itself is not flawed, but in today's political climate its application had become corrupted. Eliminating merit as a metric for admission to colleges...removing the SATs and grade point averages as standards...ensures that people who never learned to swim will be thrown into the deep end of the pool and drown...while good swimmers are denied access to the pool. Cruel and counterproductive all the way around.
Given the recent Supreme Court ruling, which was correct in my view, the challenge will be how to level the playing field starting in kindergarten, so the doors to success are open to everyone.
Monica Harris's essay was inspiring. I was enlightened by her experience with affirmative action as a good thing, something which really worked to bring opportunities to qualified but disenfranchised people of color. The concept itself is not flawed, but in today's political climate its application had become corrupted. Eliminating merit as a metric for admission to colleges...removing the SATs and grade point averages as standards...ensures that people who never learned to swim will be thrown into the deep end of the pool and drown...while good swimmers are denied access to the pool. Cruel and counterproductive all the way around.
Given the recent Supreme Court ruling, which was correct in my view, the challenge will be how to level the playing field starting in kindergarten, so the doors to success are open to everyone.