Dropping the SATs Hurts Poor Kids

Suppose you re a poor teenager in a dysfunctional environment.

You have to work a part-time job to help make ends meet. Your parents are absent or completely checked out. So you have to help take care of your younger siblings. You re smart, but you re not in a position to devote much time to homework or to getting top grades in every class. But you set a few hours aside in an afternoon, and receive an outstanding score on the SAT. Suddenly, options become available to you.

Our ruling class is doing all they can to prevent this possibility.

Remember:

If you come from poverty and chaos, you are up against three enemies:

1. Dysfunction and deprivation

2. Yourself, as a result of what that environment does to you

3. The luxury belief class, who wants to keep you mired in it

via www.thefp.com

This is absolutely, positively, 100 percent true. And it’s not just dysfunctional family kids. It’s kids who just come from obscure and unpromising backgrounds, like the sticks for instance, like Boise, Idaho, for instance, my home town. I was lucky enough to ace the PSATs and be spotted by a private educational foundation at Cornell, which admitted me to their famous summer program, along with other double-800 types, who mostly, I noted, not only had higher test scores than I, but also came from double-professional-parent families from the Upper West Side of Manhattan or the North Shore of Chicago. Besides objective tests, how else are talented kids from the sticks supposed to get recognized? This no-objective-tests movement is the single change most calculated to lock everyone into their current class. It is the opposite of anti-racism.