How NOT to Help Disadvantaged Students

By Daniel Miessler on June 10th, 2008: Tagged as Education | Race

Summary: White University professor denied tenure at a Black University because he failed too many students that deserved to fail. He was essentially told to pass approximately 70% of his students regardless of what they do. He refused and was punished.

This has been a theme of mine lately: pretending to help people by artificially lowering the standard does NOT help them. All it does is make the person lowering the standard feel better. But the student/child still suffers because they remain equally unable to compete in society.

Sickening.

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  • http://www.subtlerantings.com/ Jonathan

    Sounds kind of like welfare. Handouts to the “underprivileged” which just enables them instead of providing incentive to actually get a job. ie. Give welfare to people that make less than $XX dollars regardless of their actual efforts to get a job.

    Kind of like a lot more government programs we’ll see from Obama.

  • http://www.subtlerantings.com Jonathan

    Sounds kind of like welfare. Handouts to the “underprivileged” which just enables them instead of providing incentive to actually get a job. ie. Give welfare to people that make less than $XX dollars regardless of their actual efforts to get a job.

    Kind of like a lot more government programs we’ll see from Obama.


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