How About Some “Adversity Points”
For Hardworking Kids
Of Hardworking Parents?
Townhall,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/20/2019 5:26:23 AM
The latest tactic for the elite to shaft Normal Americans is the obnoxious “adversity score” that the academifascists who run the SATs plan to introduce as a way to give a fig leaf of objectivity and fairness to their screwing over of your kids in favor of the kids of people they prefer. Do you think there is any chance, and chance at all, that these secret numbers based upon secret factors and kept secret from you will make it more likely for your children to get into one of the elite schools?
Yeah, right.
If only someone had predicted this kind of social credit nightmare…
Reply 1 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/20/2019 6:12:08 AM (No. 67520)
If you qualify for Adversity Points, you are a loser to begin with.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
poliposter 5/20/2019 6:25:16 AM (No. 67526)
Having put 4 kids through college, if I had it to do over, I would have sent them all to local public universities. Don't even bother with SATs or ACTs or anything else if at all possible. Just don't play the game. The smartest kids DO NOT get in to the elite schools. It is about so much else, none of it having to do with academics. Save yourselves money and headaches. Unless your kid is going to be self-employed, they need a college degree. Any degree, from any major state public university is fine. If they do well and want to go to an elite graduate school, then that's where you should put your money. By the way, public universities have the best career services (i.e. jobs). Unless you can afford to send your kids to a prep school where they can make contacts with the children of the rich and famous.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Safari Man 5/20/2019 6:34:59 AM (No. 67530)
Apparently Kurt didn’t get the memo - merit is so condescending!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NancyD 5/20/2019 6:51:50 AM (No. 67537)
I disagree with #2, I think it's becoming apparent that going to college and getting a degree isn't necessary. Why pay $100K to send your kid to college and they end up landing a job that isn't in their field of study? We have 3 in college right now, and I see the majority of our friends whose kids have already graduation from college aren't working within their degree. Engineers, teachers, law and medical need degrees, everything else... no. Go to trade school, they can make more money and be employed forever.
As for Adversity Points, it's just one more way for the libs to make assumptions and label people without knowing squat. It's pathetic and wrong.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/20/2019 7:07:39 AM (No. 67544)
To add to #2, what about vocational schools? Have you hired a plumber lately? $100 just to put his big toe in your front door. How much did you women pay for your last hair cut or color? Our daughter opted out of college, went to VoTech and got certified in cosmetology. She has been self supporting and out on her own since she graduated from high school 11 years ago. She has a job which she can take anywhere and even in a depression, women still get their hair done.
One question I’d like the elites to answer about this adversity scam - suppose one is white and middle class but grows up with a psychotic/alcoholic mother and an abusive father? Where do they stand on the list? Not all adversity occurs in minority households.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/20/2019 7:31:34 AM (No. 67554)
I still cling to the quaint Victorian notion that the primary purpose of a proper education is to enlighten the mind, not just make more money. But that brings me to the same conclusion. Elite Left wing schools is the last place you want to send an intelligent, young person of impressionable age.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/20/2019 7:59:44 AM (No. 67566)
How about some "Progressive Idiocy" points for the leftist educrats that came up with this outrage?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 5/20/2019 8:04:16 AM (No. 67570)
This reflects a trend that had been destroying our country. When you hold the power to dole out special favor you can get filthy rich doling out favors. When everybody plays by the same rules there is less to be made by rule makers.
Anybody who thinks that this is about the downtrodden has been conned.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Pepper Tree 5/20/2019 8:43:40 AM (No. 67593)
Little doubt the elite schools will NOT be shaped to “look like America”
as our betters have told us OUR neighborhoods should be.
What I wonder is, what kind of talks are the elites having with their progeny
about procreating with the gutter trash they will be rubbing elbows with
every day. (\s) Pretty sure it’s not, “Color doesn’t matter to us Ashleigh, it’s
what’s in Felanio X‘s heart that we care about.”
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 5/20/2019 9:24:16 AM (No. 67620)
Just so long as we weed out the red-necks, the Jooos, the Orientals and the children of poor, working class whites then we have a "Fair" & "Honest" system. Pump in bazillions of South American "Voters" and it's all good.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
StormCnter 5/20/2019 9:30:26 AM (No. 67626)
Apparently, Singer (the fixer) encouraged parents and students to use specific race entries on the forms, telling them that some races have priority. What kind of normal parent would assign a different race to his child? But, according to the WSJ this morning, the tactic frequently worked.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/20/2019 10:00:01 AM (No. 67647)
One caveat there, #4, kids who are already bright, ambitious and level-headed can progress through life just fine without college. All that the diploma does for the rest is to impress some HR manager who inserts the ones with fake degrees into some middle management slot where they can decay for the rest of their lives. The producers eventually bypass the drones through hard work and accomplishments but sometimes become frustrated with having a know-nothing ahead of them because of the expensive sheepskin.
Like #1's comment.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
padiva 5/20/2019 10:15:32 AM (No. 67660)
How soon before there will be 'adversity points' for employment?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/20/2019 10:21:45 AM (No. 67664)
It's illegal to bribe your not so bright child into an elite school, but the government can give you bogus points for your skin color and your not so bright child can displace a deserving student legally? It used to be called affirmative action, now it will be called "adversity score!" If you break the law and enter the country illegally, your child can get free college tuition, plus housing and meals, all on the American taxpayer. That should displace a lot of deserving middle class students!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snapper451 5/20/2019 2:16:57 PM (No. 67758)
Two points, one, there is an adversity index for employment for years called “affirmative action (see Elizabeth Warren / Fauxcahontas). Two, I grew up as one of eight children with a father who worked construction and a stay at home Mom. We all went to state schools and lived at home. Everyone of us did well.
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I am pushing for race and gender to be removed from applications. The one most annoying is "are you of Hispanic heritage?" No, I am an American.
Why the fight for equality for many years if it's all out the window today ? Aren't we segregating again ?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/21/2019 11:03:44 AM (No. 68128)
Do not overlook the fact that this scheme creates yet another government department. A department manned with generously paid affirmative hires and sure votes.
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