ANTI-DIVERSITY?
Northern Kentucky University is getting set to change their admissions policy so that admitted freshmen will be better able to handle college-level work. Currently, 45 percent of freshmen drop out.
Starting next year, it will begin turning away some students, and by 2005, it will likely require a minimum score on the ACT and college-prep work in high school.
What?! Don’t they care about diversity in the classroom?
Setting minimum standards “isn’t fair to the less academic kid in school,” says Josh Rogers, a senior at Dixie Heights High School in Edgewood, who cheerfully describes himself as “not exactly a genius.”
“That’s what I relied on my whole life: If I don’t do good in this school, I can always go to NKU,” Josh says.
Principals cringe when they hear such comments from students, which is often. At Dixie Heights, 72 graduates entered NKU in 2002, records show.
“When I look at a kid and say, ‘You don’t want to fail that class, that’ll look bad on your transcript,’ they say, ‘It doesn’t matter, I’m going to NKU,'” says Kim Banta, principal of Dixie.
This is discrimination. Aren’t lazy students a protected class?
One Response to “ANTI-DIVERSITY?”
 Comment by john s bolton April 19th, 2004 at 1:00 am |
This application of the diversity-value representation shows the anti-merit nature of it very clearly. A place can be enriched and strengthened by getting a diversity which includes those with lower and lower standards? If it is anti-diversity to say this, then that is what we should be. The home-schoolers are one of the very most hopeful developments in our culture today; they work against the tendency of the government schools to use pro-diversity ideas to destroy standards and set groups into worsening conflict. A standard which is higher than others will not be chosen for its diversity, but for its value. A standard which is lower, however could be selected for the reason that it is diverse. |