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0 pointsrefurb4y ago0 comments

"If the standards include GPA, that's not very fair to someone who went to a school that doesn't offer AP tests."

Sure but the schools who choose to not rely on academic merit any more are just bringing everyone else down instead of raising up the few who need it. Seems like a terrible solution.

San Francisco just turned Lowell High, one of the best high schools in the country, from merit based to lottery. This is despite the school being full of minority students who excel academically. Now they're screwed and their spot will go to some kid who was advanced a grade because their old school didn't want to hold them back.

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xanaxagoras4y ago

That school is over. It will be propped up for a while on its laurels but the prestige will quickly wither and not return. Kind of like a capital group buying a once great brand and destroying everything that made it great while cutting costs. The radical, race-obsessed, racist arm of the modern American left destroys everything it touches.

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0 pointsrefurb4y ago0 comments

"If the standards include GPA, that's not very fair to someone who went to a school that doesn't offer AP tests."

Sure but the schools who choose to not rely on academic merit any more are just bringing everyone else down instead of raising up the few who need it. Seems like a terrible solution.

Well done?

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xanaxagoras4y ago

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