<p>^^^^ Then don’t read it. If you don’t want to participate in good, fact driven reasonable debate because it is politically incorrect to do so, then simply don’t participate. Wasn’t that easy?</p>
<p>Look for all of you people who would defend these schools, let me make an analogy:</p>
<p>What if your state legislators introduced a bill to open a new music school. This school was going to increase taxes. It’s mission was to recruit people with little to no musical aptitude and run them through a curricula designed to turn talented, in the rough musicians into working professional musicians. This school had no standards, and as such, almost anyone with rich musical talent would chose to go elsewhere and the only people going to this school was people who had no aptitude. Would that make sense? Of course not. Replace “music school” with “mechanic school” for people who have no mechanical aptitude or a school designed to teach runway modeling that who’s student body was 40+ and over 300 pounds. All of these schools to be paid for by tax revenue. they would have the same “business model” as the state schools that survive despite awful academics. You see, when political correctness and emotion are removed from the equation, the topic becomes very cut and dry.</p>
<p>The fact is, whether one wants to believe it or not, not everyone has the same talent/ability base. College is for higher learning-not everyone is cut out for it. Mechanic school is for people with mechanical aptitude- not everyone is cut out for that the- same with music school, acting school, etc. When a student body SAT/ACT score is below the national average, it indicates that the body is not either capable or ready at this point in time for the rigors of college work. A better use of resources would be to guide people towards developing skills in fields that they have an aptitude for. </p>
<p>To the race baiters:</p>
<p>And for the race hucksters- stop dragging race into this, will you. Why is it that someone always has to do that. It is funny how the only ones playing the race card are the ones trying to shut people up. Get over it, it’s about numbers, dollars, and ultimately, doing the right thing by both the student bodies and tax payers. There are PLENTY of schools that take ALL qualified applicants, regardless of race. In fact, at many schools, being a qualified minority is an advantage over a well qualified non minority.</p>