8th Grade White Boy Privilege (or A little child can lead them)

[barbos]

I understand the idea of mediocre rich kids paying for smart but poor kids education.
But still cringe at the reality where mediocre kids get to waste resources on "education".
Reminded me of two football players I once had in class I was teaching assistant. Boy, they were not smart, not smart at all.

 

[Toni]

Well, her SATs are not public information, but without a doubt her SATs were good enough for university, and very likely good enough for Harvard.

Google says there is no minimum SAT requirements in Harvard but they really looking at score above average . So it's not unthinkable that her score is even below average.

Whether she would have gotten into Harvard without her father being President, well, I wouldn't be able to say. But given where she attended high school and her parent's educational background, she would have likely ended up at some Ivy League or other elite institution.

As someone who is not a son of POTUS this bothers me.
They basically take anyone who has big shot relatives and can pay for it.

I am not sure why you would think that she would have low or mediocre SAT scores. Can you explain this to me?

I am not sure what makes you think that Harvard basically will 'take anyone who has big shot relatives and who can pay for it.' Harvard is an extremely competitive school.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

She fits the profile of what has historically been a typical Harvard student. But you knew that.

No I did not know that. I mean I did not know that they were looking at applicant's parents during admission.

So you have been posting and reading posts here since 2005 and never read anything about LEGACY admissions?

OK, if you say so.

Unless you have the same reservations about every student admitted to Harvard who has attended a top high school, has successful parents and an Ivy League legacy, I fail to see why you would even question her?

I mean, what could it be about her that would make her different?

I was just wondering about her score.

Why?

Why why?

Why are you even wondering about Malia's SAT scores? Is there something about her that make you think she is too stupid to go to Harvard?

 

[barbos]

Google says there is no minimum SAT requirements in Harvard but they really looking at score above average . So it's not unthinkable that her score is even below average.

Whether she would have gotten into Harvard without her father being President, well, I wouldn't be able to say. But given where she attended high school and her parent's educational background, she would have likely ended up at some Ivy League or other elite institution.

As someone who is not a son of POTUS this bothers me.
They basically take anyone who has big shot relatives and can pay for it.

I am not sure why you would think that she would have low or mediocre SAT scores. Can you explain this to me?

I merely said that she could have below average SAT score. Admission to Harvard does not imply high SAT score, especially when your parent is a POTUS.

I am not sure what makes you think that Harvard basically will 'take anyone who has big shot relatives and who can pay for it.' Harvard is an extremely competitive school.

Exclusive maybe, competitive (academically) certainly not.

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No I did not know that. I mean I did not know that they were looking at applicant's parents during admission.

So you have been posting and reading posts here since 2005 and never read anything about LEGACY admissions?

That's correct.

 

[repoman]

this is his mother:

 

[Trausti]

this is his mother:

Indoctrinating children into political ideology really is child abuse. Children don't know any better and will parrot whatever the conniving adults feed them. Shame on the OP for promoting it as a good thing.

 

[Toni]

Google says there is no minimum SAT requirements in Harvard but they really looking at score above average . So it's not unthinkable that her score is even below average.

Whether she would have gotten into Harvard without her father being President, well, I wouldn't be able to say. But given where she attended high school and her parent's educational background, she would have likely ended up at some Ivy League or other elite institution.

As someone who is not a son of POTUS this bothers me.
They basically take anyone who has big shot relatives and can pay for it.

I am not sure why you would think that she would have low or mediocre SAT scores. Can you explain this to me?

I merely said that she could have below average SAT score. Admission to Harvard does not imply high SAT score, especially when your parent is a POTUS.

I am not sure what makes you think that Harvard basically will 'take anyone who has big shot relatives and who can pay for it.' Harvard is an extremely competitive school.

Exclusive maybe, competitive (academically) certainly not.

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No I did not know that. I mean I did not know that they were looking at applicant's parents during admission.

So you have been posting and reading posts here since 2005 and never read anything about LEGACY admissions?

That's correct.

Wow.

 

[laughing dog]

Indoctrinating children into political ideology really is child abuse. Children don't know any better and will parrot whatever the conniving adults feed them. Shame on the OP for promoting it as a good thing.

Then you must be aghast at the US public education system. It has been indoctrinating children into political ideology for decades.

 

[Trausti]

Indoctrinating children into political ideology really is child abuse. Children don't know any better and will parrot whatever the conniving adults feed them. Shame on the OP for promoting it as a good thing.

Then you must be aghast at the US public education system. It has been indoctrinating children into political ideology for decades.

Telling children they need to apologize for being born with a politically incorrect skin hue isn't indoctrination? Got it.

An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.
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They complain the K-8 school of 430 kids is separating whites in classes where they’re made to feel awful about their “whiteness,” and all the “kids of color” in other rooms where they’re taught to feel proud about their race and are rewarded with treats and other privileges.
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Bank Street has created a “dedicated space” in the school for “kids of color,” where they’re “embraced” by minority instructors and encouraged to “voice their feelings” and “share experiences about being a kid of color,” according to school presentation slides obtained by The Post.

Meanwhile, white kids are herded into separate classrooms and taught to raise their “awareness of the prevalence of Whiteness and privilege,” challenge “notions of colorblindness (and) assumptions of ‘normal,’ ‘good,’ and ‘American’” and “understand and own European ancestry and see the tie to privilege.”
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“One hundred percent of the curriculum is what whites have done to other races,” said another Bank Street parent. “They offer nothing that would balance the story.”

Added the parent, who also asked to go unnamed: “Any questions they can’t answer they rationalize under the pretense of ‘institutional racism,’ which is never really defined.”
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They say white kids are being brainwashed into thinking any success they achieve is unearned. Indeed, a young white girl is seen confessing on a Bank Street video: “I feel guilty for having a privilege I don’t deserve.”
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Parents, moreover, say the classroom segregation only breeds resentment. Younger children, for instance, feel left out when the “kids of color” come back to the main classroom munching on cupcakes they were given in their “affinity group.”

http://nypost.com/2016/07/01/elite-k-8-school-teaches-white-students-theyre-born-racist/

 

[laughing dog]

Then you must be aghast at the US public education system. It has been indoctrinating children into political ideology for decades.

Telling children they need to apologize for being born with a politically incorrect skin hue isn't indoctrination? Got it.

What is the source for that non-sequitur? I did not say what was not indoctrination. I said the US public education system has been indoctrinating children into political ideology for decades.

 

[Trausti]

Telling children they need to apologize for being born with a politically incorrect skin hue isn't indoctrination? Got it.

What is the source for that non-sequitur? I did not say what was not indoctrination. I said the US public education system has been indoctrinating children into political ideology for decades.

I accept your apology.

 

[laughing dog]

What is the source for that non-sequitur? I did not say what was not indoctrination. I said the US public education system has been indoctrinating children into political ideology for decades.

I accept your apology.

Your responses are evidence the US education system did not do a good job indoctrinating children into adequate reading comprehension or reasoning.

 

[repoman]

 

[Trausti]

I accept your apology.

Your responses are evidence the US education system did not do a good job indoctrinating children into adequate reading comprehension or reasoning.

Thought you were in agreement that the kid in the OP video is the victim of harmful indoctrination.

 

[laughing dog]

Your responses are evidence the US education system did not do a good job indoctrinating children into adequate reading comprehension or reasoning.

Thought you were in agreement that the kid in the OP video is the victim of harmful indoctrination.

More evidence the US education system did not do a good job indoctrinating children into adequate reading comprehension or reasoning.

 

[repoman]

He ain't north western European white like me. Pretty damn olive skinned to be white.



Also, he is an actor from an acting family:


This is a much better version of the material of the "poem", by Lil Dicky who is actually a pretty good rapper. I like the fact that he is up front as well about being Jewish and having that "privilege".

 

[Metaphor]

He ain't north western European white like me. Pretty damn olive skinned to be white.

Nuance is not something SJWs want to contend with. Not all 'white' people are alike or have the same amount of 'white' privilege. When I was growing up, the white people, the real white people, all had Anglo names and ancestors who were convicts. Little ethnics from the Mediterannean like myself were wogs.

 

[repoman]

Common Core has turned the American school system into an SJW version of Jesus Camp which is funny because that movie was a hit piece against homeschooling.

 

[J842P]

Well, her SATs are not public information, but without a doubt her SATs were good enough for university, and very likely good enough for Harvard.

Google says there is no minimum SAT requirements in Harvard but they really looking at score above average . So it's not unthinkable that her score is even below average.

Actually, it IS unthinkable. The average SAT score is 1500 (target average, at least). Here's a link to the this coming year's graduating class's SAT scores:

http://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions.html

The lowest were students in the 1600 (out of 2400) range, above average although not really impressive. Notice they had perfect grades, though. Harvard doesn't just look at grades/SAT, anyway. Looking at this graph, you would have thought I had a good chance of getting in to Harvard (2150 SAT, 3.8 GPA), but I basically had zero chance. They are mostly looking for kids that have excellent grades, excellent scores, AND have real accomplishments already. Examples are things like having started a business, having built something of consequence, being chess champion, being the best cellist in the country, etc etc. I bet you most of those kids in the bottom left have weighty accomplishments. Basically, there is 0% chance Malia's SAT were below average, and given her high school, they were almost certainly very high.

 

[barbos]

Google says there is no minimum SAT requirements in Harvard but they really looking at score above average . So it's not unthinkable that her score is even below average.

Actually, it IS unthinkable. The average SAT score is 1500 (target average, at least). Here's a link to the this coming year's graduating class's SAT scores:

http://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions.html

The lowest were students in the 1600 (out of 2400) range, above average although not really impressive. Notice they had perfect grades, though. Harvard doesn't just look at grades/SAT, anyway. Looking at this graph, you would have thought I had a good chance of getting in to Harvard (2150 SAT, 3.8 GPA), but I basically had zero chance. They are mostly looking for kids that have excellent grades, excellent scores, AND have real accomplishments already. Examples are things like having started a business, having built something of consequence, being chess champion, being the best cellist in the country, etc etc. I bet you most of those kids in the bottom left have weighty accomplishments. Basically, there is 0% chance Malia's SAT were below average, and given her high school, they were almost certainly very high.

Yeah, they are looking for someone like Elizabeth Holmes