SAT's OFF THE RAILS

Watch for my current events program ABCs, SATs next week but note that the SAT is adding an :Adveristy Score" embedded in the SAT's that will tilt what is supposed to be an objective APTIITUDE test that helps colleges evaluate better since it seems almost everyone gets straight A's these days. There used to be a bell curve. Kids are no smarted these days, and based upon reentering of the SAT's already, the absence of critical thinking skills, the absence of core essentials such as history, geography, actual science as opposed to popular memes, and useful math, combined with woeful performances in writing abilities do not portend a bright future. Asian students have begun to dominate based upon merit despite some disadvantages in language - they study and apply themselves and overcome all obstacles. 

With non-Asian minorities there is a catastrophic drop off in scores, and research has actually shown that these scores OVERPREDICT success in the non-Asian minority communities. This is the result of OUTCOME-BASED THINKING. If one group outperforms, something must be wrong. Rather than apply their ingredients for success to the others, the desire is to BRING THEM DOWN. 

This hurts everyone - Asians, because merit no longer applies to them. Blacks, because getting points based upon race does ZERO to improve their academic disciplines and popular thinking that all black graduates are inferior stigmatizes black students who achieved based upon merit alone. When I was a freshmen in an elite college, there was a black engineering student in the room next to mine. Tony was extremely smart, yet some said he was there because he was black, not because he was smart. That was BEFORE affirmative action. This brain-dead approach hurts black achievers. It also harms poorer whites, who face as much adversity as anyone, but who would not benefit from getting points points based upon who you are, not on how well you can think. This proposal is typical of the American Left, which wats to dumb down education yet more, as ill-educated people who think they are the sharpest knives in the drawer are the easiest to control.