San Francisco's Lowell High School Returns to Merit-Based Admissions After Lottery System Was a Disaster

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[–]jagworms 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

When you switch from high admissions standards to random admission standards, you end up with a worse batch of students. if this were an elite school, filled with smart people, they could have predicted this outcome.

[–]agelmat 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's the "elite smart people" who are pushing nonsense like this

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

If schools stop educating the best students, the elites will have less competition for jobs that actually require smarts. That's until the random selection process hits the jobs market too.

[–]agelmat 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Nah. Elites really believe that they can fix every problem if only someone gave them more power. They really do believe dumbing down kids is helping them. It's that old addage, the road to hell is paved with good intentions

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

the road to hell is paved with good intentions

Are you sure about the good intentions in this case?

[–]agelmat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. The most evil I've seen in my life has come from people who try to do good

[–]CoCo_Goldstein 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Those who pushed the lottery system assumed that the students who won the lottery would become elite students because reasons/magic, even if the kids only had a 2nd grade reading level.

[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's because non-inclusion and non-diversity were the only things keeping them from being elite. Talent and hard work are white-supremacist concepts.

[–]hfxB0oyA 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who would have guessed that an individual's dedication to excellence in the past might be an indication of their continued dedication to excellence going forward?

Not the SJWs, because their entire ideology is a coping mechanism for their lifelong inability to achieve.

[–]TarBaby 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lottery system admits bad students.

[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I do think there should be some kind of small-scale lottery, in order to promote diversity (not just in the liberal sense).

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Too bad affirmative action doesn't work.