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Originally posted by Spanky
Preferences and Quotas don't help the situation. On the other hand they convince the general population that, what ever group is being helped, that none of the members of that particular group are as qualified as non members.
In Malaysia, everyone asks for an ethnic Chinese doctor because they think all the Malay doctors are not as qualified. The Hoover insitution did polls on African Americans in this country and asked them about Doctors and many African americans said they preferred white doctors because they had fears the black doctors were not as qualified.
So the result of prefernces and quotas, is that the general population assumes that everyone in a favored group has benefited from them, which of course is not true. You end up making the situation even worse.
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So you admit it's a non-sequitor? Good.
Now, let's talk about how to get teens to think about not dropping out from school. What would you suggest?
I'm thinking a program targeted to at risk kids that gives them an incentive to stay in school with the promise of additional education (and hence, opportunities) down the line.
But wait! I can't do that. It would be giving a preference. It would be affirmative action. I have to open up the program to everyone, and so I either have to have an unlimited number of spots, or I have to give them based on "merit." Who do you think is going to get those "merit" spots? The teen I'm trying to give an incentive to, or the kid who was already going to go to college?
