high school kids protest - Page 2

bwana devil · #11 05-29-2007, 12:57 PM

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To me, this alone makes the argument that those tests are likely a good idea.

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who's arguing they're not a good idea?

econophile · #12 05-29-2007, 12:59 PM

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To me, this alone makes the argument that those tests are likely a good idea.

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who's arguing they're not a good idea?

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one group among many

skunkworks · #13 05-29-2007, 01:00 PM

You guys are making it sound like each school hands out A's and B's on a consistent, universal scale. Sorry dudes, but 3.5 is not the same between schools.

tpir · #14 05-29-2007, 01:01 PM

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We've got a real dialectic going on here.

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Love the top 10% rule in Texas. These retards would get admission at UT no questions asked while someone who worked their ass off, high test scores, but finished 11% in a top high school may not get in.

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Yea, it's a crime that Texas has such a progressive policy allowing rural and urban kids to actually compete with the pampered suburban brats who went to the best schools with the best teachers. What a shame that these spoiled and coddled whiners can't make the cut against their own classmates. Maybe the universities should just bar anyone from a poor family or area from attending. That'd fix 'um!

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Synthesis, anyone?

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Sounds like there are two totally separate issues being discussed even though they are *sort of* in the same neighborhood. DUCY?

Autocratic · #15 05-29-2007, 01:02 PM

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Let are kids walk.

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Lol in the Special Olympics Opening Ceremony maybe.

Love the top 10% rule in Texas. These retards would get admission at UT no questions asked while someone who worked their ass off, high test scores, but finished 11% in a top high school may not get in.

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Yea, it's a crime that Texas has such a progressive policy allowing rural and urban kids to actually compete with the pampered suburban brats who went to the best schools with the best teachers. What a shame that these spoiled and coddled whiners can't make the cut against their own classmates. Maybe the universities should just bar anyone from a poor family or area from attending. That'd fix 'um!

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God i hope im getting leveled hard here.

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Seriously? I mean the 10% policy has its problems, but it seriously levels the playing field - there's definitely a lot of room to consider it a good policy.

Dids · #16 05-29-2007, 01:02 PM

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To me, this alone makes the argument that those tests are likely a good idea.

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who's arguing they're not a good idea?

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I would assume the people protesting them in the linked story? Perhaps?

econophile · #17 05-29-2007, 01:04 PM

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Sounds like there are two totally separate issues being discussed even though they are *sort of* in the same neighborhood. DUCY?

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There is no room for subtlety in the fight for our childrens' future!

tpir · #18 05-29-2007, 01:08 PM

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Sounds like there are two totally separate issues being discussed even though they are *sort of* in the same neighborhood. DUCY?

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There is no room for subtlety in the fight for our childrens' future!

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ha ha ha. very nice. i don't know what your street cred. is like around these parts, but you are def. an upper echelon poster in my book.

bwana devil · #19 05-29-2007, 01:08 PM

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To me, this alone makes the argument that those tests are likely a good idea.

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who's arguing they're not a good idea?

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I would assume the people protesting them in the linked story? Perhaps?

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nah, they just want to walk in their graduation ceremony w/ failing TAKS scores.

jws43yale · #20 05-29-2007, 01:08 PM

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Seriously? I mean the 10% policy has its problems, but it seriously levels the playing field - there's definitely a lot of room to consider it a good policy.

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I agree. I went to a Texas public school and it was laughingly easy to be in the top 10%. There are very few schools in Texas where this is legitamitely a tough task. So if you happen to go to one of those schools, you just need to pull a 1200+ SAT and you will be fine. I don't understand why someone who was a 1050 SAT but went to a "hard" school in their upper class white neighborhood has a right to complain about this.