Alison Collins, the Vice President of the San Francisco Board of Education, has declared meritocracy to be racist even in the selection of students at advanced or gifted programs. As we have previously discussed, this has been a building campaign in academia as educators and others denounce selection based on academic performance through testing. At issue in San Francisco is Lowell High School where top students were selected through testing and grades. Most cities have such gifted programs or institutions, though we have discussed calls for the elimination of all gifted and talented programs in cities like New York. Lowell had a majority of white and Asian students and only two percent of its student body were African-Americans. Collins and other board members want to abolish the merit-based selection in favor of a blind lottery system.
Collins’ remarks from a San Francisco Board of Education public meeting in October 13, 2020 were only recently posted by Sophie Bearman of San Francisco’s online publication Here/Say Media. In the meeting, she declared “When we talk about merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing…those are racist systems.… You can’t talk about social justice, and then say you want to have a selective school that keeps certain kids out from the neighborhoods that you think are dangerous.”
Collins made the statement in support of a resolution, entitled “In Response to Ongoing, Pervasive Systemic Racism at Lowell High School,” authored by Collins, Board President Gabriela Lopez, Commissioner Matt Alexander, and Student Delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza.
Newsweek quotes at least one Lowell teacher who objects to the elimination of the school as a place for top performing students and said that the system is blind on race and designed to reward “the hardest working kids in terms of academics.”
Gifted programs and elite academic schools are designed to allow students to reach their full academic potential with other students performing at the highest level of math and other disciplines. It is often difficult for such students to reach that potential in conventional settings. Teachers have to keep their classes as a whole moving forward in subject areas. That often means that academically gifted children are held back by conventional curricula or lesson plans. Those students can actually underperform due to boredom or the lack of challenging material. Many simply leave the public school system. Moreover, students tend to perform better with students progressing at their similar level. Teachers can then focus on a lesson plan and discussions that are tailored to students at a similar performance level.
Moving to a lottery system at Lowell would obviously convert the school into a conventional academic program. We can debate the value of having such schools to cater to the most advanced students. I believe such schools are important components to public education. We not only reward students for their considerable academic achievement but guarantee all students that they can progress as far as their interests and capabilities will take them. These schools are the source of pride in many cities in showing the full potential of high school students in science and other fields.
I do not agree that meritocracy is inherently racist. Students of all races benefit from such schools. While there is clearly less diversity at Lowell, the best solution is not to eliminate such programs but to work harder in the earlier grades to allow minority students to excel (and ultimately gain admission to such programs).
There is a need for meritocracy in academia and society at large. Indeed, such scores offer race-neutral systems for advancement. While subjects like math have been declared racist (and a University of Rhode Island professor recently declared all of science, statistics, and technology to be “inherently racist”), these are fields that allowed many intellectuals of color to advance.
We have to have systems of objective comparison in the ability and performance of students in academia. We use such tests and scores for the selection of students admissions to college and society uses such systems for business and professional advancement. The world is becoming a far more competitive place. Other countries are not abandoning meritocracy. They are pushing their most most talented students to achieve even more in specialized programs and advanced courses. We need to do the same if we are going to remain competitive as a nation. Eliminating elite programs like Lowell removes an opportunity not just for these students but our society as a whole. These are some of the best developing minds in our country and they should be allowed to reach their full potential through special schools and programs.
I have been a huge supporter of public schools my whole life. While my parents could afford private schools, they helped form a group to keep white families in the public school system in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. They wanted their kids to be part of a diverse school environment. I also sent my kids to public schools for the same reason. I view our public schools as important parts of our society as we shape future citizens.
This efforts in San Francisco and New York will only encourage more families to leave our public school systems and potentially increase rather than reduce problems of diversity in our student bodies. The need to achieve greater diversity in top public high schools is real and needs to be addressed. However, the solution is to create better educational opportunities for younger students to lift them up rather than lower (or eliminate) entry standards at these schools. That is certainly harder than just imposing a lottery system for all schools but it preserves the opportunity for high advancement for students of all races.
Another example of the left eating its own. Up to now, it was esteemed academics and writers like Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Donald McNeil Jr., Alison Roman, Andy Mills, J.K. Rowling, Bari Weiss et al. who were guillotined for apostacy by the woke mob. Now the mob is going after bright kids??
The radicals are now exploring “cognitive abortion” in the name of social justice.
Diogenes: “Now the mob is going after bright kids??”
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The Jacobin mob has been after bright Asian and white kids for awhile. Oakland planned to eliminate upper level science classes because only whites and Asians took them so they clearly are racist and must be destroyed.
Everyone must be made to function at the mental level of an NFL player, NYT reporter, or the President*
Yes, reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut short story, Harrison Bergeron. I’m sure Kurt would be in the gulag by now if he were still with us.
Kurt would be in hiding and CNN would be trying to dox him.
Yep
Kurt narrowly missed being a terror victim himself. Back when he was a POW. In Dresden. And the bombers came to incinerate the unarmed young and old civilians alike. The terrorist murderer of over 25,000 or more people in one night was who? Read the book and find out
Sal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five
people learn from the government folks. remember that
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfYHXL4p8GA&w=560&h=315%5D
And who plays Handicapper General of the United States (HAGUS) Diana Moon Glampers? None other than Fox News contributer Tammy Bruce.
Whatever, meanwhile Turley avoids the SC ruling which says that laws don’t apply to citizens who believe in magic spirits, even laws intended to curb the spread of a lethal pandemic and with results that will impact other citizens.
Strange as it may seem to you, atheism is not state mandated in this country.
Strange as it may seem to you, no one suggested it is. Work on your reasoning skills.
Anonymous the Stupid, again you missed the point.
Joe, are we talking about Hoodoo or Jack Daniels? I’m flexible on Hoodoo, but Jack Daniels will be a fist fight.
Seriously, I googled but couldn’t find it (didn’t try that hard, though). Maybe nobody knows about it. Got a link?
Diogenes:
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/06/964822479/supreme-court-rules-against-california-ban-on-in-person-worship-amid-the-pandemi
“A deeply divided Supreme Court doubled down on religious rights late Friday, ruling that California can no longer continue with a ban on indoor church services put in place to fight to the coronavirus pandemic. ….”
From Joe’s NPR link: “This latest order is fresh evidence of the court’s willingness to second-guess both epidemiologists and elected officials who are fighting a once-in-a-century pandemic when it comes to questions of religious liberty.”
Those same epidemiologists and elected officials were remarkably mute about public riots and demonstrations in the name of social justice. I even recall one of the CDC’s geniuses encouraging that activity. Now you could argue that the riots were permissible because they occurred outdoors. I would counter that not all rioting and looting occurred outdoors. Necessarily, some of the looting began indoors and then spread outdoors as the perps absconded, thus posing a health hazard.
NPR could not be reached for comment.
Diogenes, nothing in your post argues for a justification for giving special rights to those who believe in magic spirits to not be bound by laws intended to protect public safety..
Joe, I was being halfway facetious. Comics often use straight men. Thank you for your service 😉
To be painfully honest, I’m not an attorney and thus not an expert on emergency powers versus freedom of religion. According to the NPR article, the SC was 5-4, so even leading opinion is split. I will gladly defer to other opinions on this comment board. The “magical spirits” thing inspired my cupidity, for which I thank you 🙂
Oh $hit, “cupidity” was a completely bad choice of words. I meant “levity.” I may have attracted a troll swarm now 🙁
An emergency is something that lasts, hours, days, maybe weeks.
Any power that an executive assumes to itself that lasts beyond the next legislative session is authoritian and unconstitutional.
You have a distorted concept of rights.
Each of us has the RIGHT to the maximum of freedom consistent with public order.
Every single one of us has the RIGHT to be free from government interference in our lives. Outside the narrow domain of legitimate government.
You do not seem to grasp that. I would challenge every single SCOTUS decision on First amendment religious grounds – because religious rights are merely a subset of the right to liberty that we ALL have.
Government is no more free to interfere with your religious practices, than it is to lobotomize you.
What laws ?
Oh, you mean those stupid executive edicts ?
For the past 4 years the first principle of the left has been – Whatever Trump supports is evil and we must oppose it.
With Trump gone – you can not figure out what to do or say.
Are masks good or bad ? depending on the day they work, they don’t, or you should wear two.
Should we re-open schools ? The left does not know, And without “Trump is wrong” as a guiding principle, they contradict themselves.
Often the same person contradicting themselves in the same day.
We heard the Trump administration was amateur – yet we see stupid children moving into washington.
Psaki can not handle Softballs without having to “circle arround”. She insults space force and then the White House press secretary has to retract her own remark the next day.
Walls are bad and do not work – except arround the capital ?
We are going to replace the jobs this administration is killing with jobs making Solar Panel’s ? How well did Solyandra work out for Obama ? Is that really what we are to go back to ? Regardless, Solar panels are made in china. But I guess Biden knows that.
While we knowingly elected a doddering fool – why is it that the rest of the Biden administration is so clueless ?
We listened to the those of you here on the left ranting that Trump and his staff and lawyers were clueless for issuing EO’s that did not comply with the APA. Where are your rants about the incompetence of the Biden administration for making the same error only AFTER supreme court decisions requiring APA compliance. Trump’s purported incompetence atleast could aargue that they did not beleive the APA applied.
Why is the Biden administration so chock full or idiots and scoundrels? We have a state official who blew half a billion to nigerian scammers promoted to oversee the same programs in DC.
Acronym’s are racist – so we must rename San Francisco School programs with Acronym’s to new names – still using acronym’s.
Now Bernie Sanders is racist for wearing mittens made of recylced yarn to the inauguration ?
Can anyone keep up with the idiotic and self contradictory edicts of the left ?
And you want to criticise people who beleive in God ? This from the crew that does not beleive in reality.
John Say.
The law was a California law. Had nothing to do with Trump or Biden.
It is good to wear a mask – actually either 2 or an N95 since the newer highly contagious strains have hit – when in the public or in contact with non-family members, or others who not already in close regular contact with you.
I criticized the SC, not people who believe in magic spirits. I fully support freedom of religion as per the Constitution, including belief and practice, as long as it’s within our laws. I see no reason why anyone or group should have special rights because they believe in magic spirits.
“It is good to wear a mask – actually either 2 or an N95 since the newer highly contagious strains have hit – when in the public or in contact with non-family members, or others who not already in close regular contact with you.”
It is ? You have evidence of that ?
Just about every public health official who has said masks work, has also said they did not. Almost every health official who has said 2 masks are better than one has also said that two masks are not better than one.
Do you want burried in lots of clips of Faucci or others contradicting themselves ?
BTW the actual data we have contradicts all this nonsense. The long term effectiveness of mask. s is POOR. There are atleast 30 studies demonstrating that now. One of the lastest from Denmark found about a 15% difference in the infection rate of those who religiously wore n95 masks and those who did not wear masks at all over the course of 3 months. Over the course of a year the effectiveness would be about 3%.
There are earlier studies of healthcare workers where those working intensively in Covid wards with 97% effective PPE all tested positive for antibodies after 2 months.
Having normal Vitamin D levels is about a factor of 10 times more e
ffective than Masks at preventing C19.
It also reduces your risk of death if you get C19 by a factor of 15.
What is increasingly self evident to anyone capable of critical thinking is that the “experts” not only are clueless, but they are also running counter to centuries of epidemiology.
“I criticized the SC, not people who believe in magic spirits. I fully support freedom of religion as per the Constitution, including belief and practice, as long as it’s within our laws. I see no reason why anyone or group should have special rights because they believe in magic spirits.”
You do not seem to understand what a RIGHT means.
If the law is free to restrict ones rights – they are not rights. There is little or no “within our laws” limitation to rights.
It is pretty much the opposite. Any law that infringes on out rights is presumptively illegitimate.
Something is a right only if you are free to act – even if the majority thinks your actions are stupid.
Even Ghengis Kahn supported freedom of religion.
“You can’t pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.”
― Scott Howard Phillips
“Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.”
― Tiffany Madison
“The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion…Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.”
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
[West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)]”
― Robert H. Jackson
John the issue I brought up is that nothing in our constitution grants special rights to those of a certain belief system to ignore otherwise legal laws, including belief in magic spirits .Your quote is irrelevant to that principle.
Our SC has been captured by a radical majority which was appointed by presidents representing neither a majority or plurality of voters. This kind of nonsense is the result.
There are no special rights.
You keep trying to frame things that way.
I beleive the SC oppinion you are pissing over is specific to emergency powers of the executive.
And the fundimental issues are those powers can not be infinite in duration, nor arbitrary and caprecious.
And they were both.
And we have seen that all over with respect to states stupid C19 rules.
Nor have churches been the only targets.
Small Businesses have been destroyed by stupid C19 executive actions that never were backed by data or science.
Your local hardware store is arguably less dangerous than Home Depot.
In a 20T economy there is no such thing as an essential or non-essential service.
Our SC is a poor bulwark against a radical minority intent on imposing its will on all of us over everything.
The only question is why wasn’t this decision 9-0.
It is far past time to end the “emergency C19 powers”
It is self evident that not only has government been ineffective, but that it has no clue what to do or even what the “science” actually is.
I believe in the One Eyed god of war who comes on his eight legged steed
While we knowingly elected a doddering fool – why is it that the rest of the Biden administration is so clueless ?
Because they can afford to be. There is no one to call them to account. Also, they reject truths that are necessary for any successful productive endeavor.,
These so called educators are air heads with nothing between their ears but mush. As the old saying says, “Those who can do, those who can’t teach”.
Then there are black belts, who do both.
It’s a silly saying. I’ve seen many who have done both, and many more incapable of either.
Will humanity ever free itself from the shackles of racism, hate, murder, war, the evils of human nature?
In general, the prerequisite to evolution are dynamic channels of opposites (good and evil, yin and yang, etc.). There is a constant struggle for freedom from the shackles of resistance throughout nature, both physical and social. Human freedom is a function of ethics in the evolution of the standard of living in both the physical and social domains. We need to enhance education in reason and ethics.
In our modern-day secularism throughout governance, perhaps, an alternative view of ethics relative to the physical constructal law may help expedite the evolution in global civility:
Here we go again…..the Loony Left screaming “racism” and calling anything and everything “White and Racist” and wanting to create equal outcomes through government.
She and those who speak as she does proves how utterly ignorant some folks can be.
Or is it just plain old stupidity being demonstrated?
‘I do not agree that meritocracy is inherently racist.’
If he did, I would question his sanity.
I would say fine, let them sink to the bottom, the rest of us will move on were we not in our predicament with our Democratic tyrants. This could easily go nationwide in the form of law as did ‘inclusion’ (which actually helps neither low nor high achieving students, but it sure drives good teachers to early retirement and makes progressives feel good about themselves) and Common Core. The dems aren’t ‘fortifying’ education, elections, healthcare or anything but their own power to prevent you and I from turning the tables or choosing for ourselves ever again, all justified by contrivances pulled out of thin air and then broadcast by their propaganda arms.
Is it any wonder that she is white, privileged, fifty-ish, female, and progressive, and presuming to represent the human race at large rather than her own personal emotionally puerile issues/butthurt, just as virtually all older wokesters are (and their kids most DEFINITELY are)? I think not. Who cares if we irreversibly damage our society. At least *she* will feel good about herself, amiright? It would be more astonishing for the acknowledgement of reality and legitimate equity, such as all students legitimately having their needs addressed, to fall out of her mouth.
In her mind those poorer than her are pretty much like pets. Enlighten us, oh Jesus Woman.
It is pointed out below she is mulatto. My mistake.
If you are white and work hard to get into top schools, you are a racist by virtue of your skin color and you must acknowledge your white guilt and defer to people of color who really don’t have to do a damn thing to get get into top schools by virtue of their skin color. Got that?
Same, but more, with Asians.
“intellectuals of color to advance”
There will never be a color blind society until society stops emphasizing color.
As to the academics who want a “blind lottery system”, instead of a system based on merit. They are the true racists.
Meritocracy is the big lie of neoliberalism. Many will happily sing its praises while cupping their ears to any complex side-effects to the contrary. How could it be bad to want the best for our children, right?
Sure, you can dismiss the racism angle. And treat the desegregated busing of the 1960s as a communist plot. But regardless of color, it’s a system that’s designed to create and aggravate the stratification of class between children and future generations.
If you don’t believe that, read what the white former mayor of Minneapolis wrote in the NY Times last year about the violent resistance of parents to attempts to temper the ills of meritocracy:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/minneapolis-hodges-racism.html
You’ve posted this inane sent of assertions twice on this thread. Once was too many.
“it’s a system that’s designed to create and aggravate the stratification of class between children and future generations.”
It’s the direct opposite. If you work to improve your knowledge and skills, if you make sacrifices of your present time to study and improve yourself, then you will demonstrate that any stratification is not set in stone. If you begin by emulating successful patterns then you can make them your own.
Another brilliant idea from the people who keep sending that fetid lump of female genitalia back to Congress.
Again, you track students so that each student is taught and expected to learn at a pace most suitable to his dispositions. To end tracking is to countenance gross inefficiency in the delivery of instructional services. Slow students are bewildered and tune out and quick students are bored and tune out. Students who would benefit from voTech are shunted into half-assed academic programs.
We can see what’s going on here, which is a war on individual accomplishment. Instead of accomplishment, we have patronage distributed by self-appointed members of the karenwaffe like Alison Collins. And who is she? A vocational public nuisance who was at one time an English teacher (note, hardly any subject taught at the secondary level has weaker operational measures of competence). She notes she has an MEd from one of the Cal State schools. She doesn’t mention her undergraduate degree, which tells you that (1) she wasn’t subject trained or (2) she was subject trained at a school so unselective she is embarrassed to mention the name. See Thos Sowell on the issue of this nationi’s teachers’ colleges: they were commonly mediocre students in high school and identify with mediocre students.
Note: she’s also a mulatto. One of the distressing features of the last 50 years has been the neuralgic reaction of blacks in the word-merchant sector to ordinary performance standards and the inclination to value simulacra of accomplishment over actual accomplishment. A fixation on status and display is one way blacks injure themselves, and gentry whites who fancy themselves tribunes of the blacks then proceed to injure institutions and elements of the common life so addle-pated blacks won’t feel ‘disrespected’. We need to stop pandering to stupid sentiments.
Meritocracy is the big lie of neoliberalism. People will happily smoke that dope all day without questioning what’s in it.
Even if you dismiss the racism comment, it clearly fuels intergenerational inequality to create and extend class stratification of society. We can’t allow our own children fail, but there’s more to it than that. The former mayor of Minneapolis captured this well:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/minneapolis-hodges-racism.html
Even if you dismiss the racism comment, it clearly fuels intergenerational inequality
Thanks for the ex cathedra pronouncement. Always an education.
to create and extend class stratification of society.
Any society more complex than an agricultural village will have a division of labor and thus strata. The vectors which influence the evolution of the strata are a function of what kind of society you have. This woman objects to competition and performance determining strata, because she fancies that pests like her should determine strata. Pests like her are ignored in any society which seeks to foster virtue, justice, and human accomplishment.
We can’t allow our own children fail, but there’s more to it than that.
Any achievement worth pursuing incorporates the possibility of success or failure. What you’re objecting to is what she objects to: accomplishment.
The former mayor of Minneapolis captured this well:
Betsy Hodges is notable for never having acquired an actual skill set in the 33 years which have elapsed since she completed high school. She worked as an uncredentialed social worker, then made an attempt to prepare for an academic career (abandoned after two years), then served as a functionary of a succession of small NGOs in the zero-marginal-product sector, then held elective office. She was a failure as Mayor and voted out of office because nothing she’d ever done prepared her for an executive position and nothing she’d ever done had cleared out the fallacies in her head. By the way, her current husband and her previous husband have children, but she’s not the mother of any of the children and never had any responsibility for them. She’s the issue of an intact affluent family which could afford to send their children to selective schools. Her parents’ generation was chock-a-block with achievers. Her brothers each managed to learn a trade and build a family. She’s about the most thoroughgoing tool you could imagine, so why should we pay her any mind?
Why are we supposed to elevate the oppinion of the former mayor of minneapolis over the facts and reality.
As to meritocracy increasing inequality and class stratification – over time it has “flattened the curve”
Absolutely there is greater distance between the rich and the poor. But we are not bundled in clearly distinct classes. we are smeared accross and ever widening domain of standard of living. The rich get richer, the middle class gets richer, the poor get richer.
Of course we are unequal. That is just a fact. I am not a skilled athelete or musicion, and I can never be, no matter how hard I try or how much I want. We do not have the same skills and talents. We are not bees or ants. We are each unique. Different. Unequal.
Get over it.
The only way to accomplish equality in education is to lobotomize everyone.
Class like other natural human groups is ineradicable
At best we can tame the degree to which the highest stratum seeks to control and exploit us all
Today the billionaires have more control of us than the ancient kings ever had over their slaves
via these little digital devices in our pockets that have become chains for us all
and our false leaders, paid off by the billionaires, only seek to extend that top tier’s power over us
we should rise up against these false masters and give them a reckoning
Sal Sar
This is AGAIN left wing insanity. It is also racist thinking that students of color cannot succeed in advanced programs. This new goal of EQUITY rather than EQUALITY will bring this country down. We are not supposed to equal! We are supposed to be individuals. All with different gifts to share with one another. You don’t make up for past injustices with more injustice and stupidity!
Golly, when I’m sick and dying, I want to be treated by a doctor who got into medical school because their name got chosen in a lottery. The road to Idiotocracy.
Change the laws and force children of politicians and school officials to have their children educated in the public school system. They force that type of garbage on us.
Typical person with a mind up with the fairies…you cannot legislate IQ’s and hard work or emotional quotient for that matter…I loved my down syndrome patients but they were not going to graduate at the top of the class at MIT and there are different levels of trisomy 21 too. Some could work but some just sit and watch cartoons all day and the democrats just abort them anyway when they find out they are pregnant with any human with a genetic defect. If you take a 1000 kids of all races and test their IQ’s the average will be 100. It’s no different than taking 1000 kids and asking them to run a mile. Only one will be first. Is every kid going to be Tiger Woods or Mozart or Picasso…NO…all men are NOT created equal or have equal outcomes…is every person Albert Einstein NO…Marlon Brando…NO…we are all born with some gifts from God…but it’s up to each of us to develop those gifts and blessings…and rarely does a formal education have anything to do with that. You can’t stay in school forever…sooner or later you have to go to work and hopefully make the world a better place.
Thomas Sowell speaks to the harm caused to students pushed into programs that they were not qualified for for whatever reason. There has to be an answer besides yes and no – yes meritocracy or no meritocracy. As mentioned, there has to be a way to raise the opportunity of quality education at earlier ages for those not blessed financially or with educated families. I go back to asking, do you want your surgeon, your child’s surgeon, to have their job for anything other than merit.
There is.
Free markets ensure that whatever it is that you want becomes better and cheaper over time.
This works universally so long as the market remains free.
It works for food, it works for education.
It does not deliver equality. It delivers freedom. It delivers ever improving choices to everyone.
It might be time to dismantle the SF Board of Education
Following the logic, we should begin by making admission to a sports team, say, basketball, be based on a lottery system rather than on performance. Who says we can’t have those short white and asian kids slamming the ball?
My family lived in two different cities in two different regions of the country. In both, the quest for ‘equity’ led to the dismantling of gifted programs and the closing down of ‘elite’ schools within the city limits. The result was predictable; families who could do so, left the city and fled to the suburbs. For those left behind, the equity achieved was considerably less than expected. In both cities, I kept my children in the public school systems as long as possible, but when the schools were locked down, with armed guards patrolling the corridors, we also left.
The problem is not merit-based admissions sytsems. It is the failure of social policies and the endemic poverty that has come to characterize so many of our urban areas. In my home town, we once had one of the best educational system in the world and one of the lowest crime rates. No longer. Industry left and the inmigration of the unemployed and the unemployable has transformed it into one gigantic ghetto.
Those calling for an end to meritocracy are merely helping the rot spread. Their time would be better spent promoting the creation of jobs, good police enforcement, and social programs designed to encourage strong family structures and attitudes which strive for excellence, rather than those that celebrate the lowest common denominator.
A related link on the classics and their importance by someone who understands the importance of learning, unlike those who wish to substitute indoctrination for thinking, from a website where the more outspoken and thoughtful writers have migrated.
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-the-classics-d60
Removing meritocracy lowers the standard to the lowest level of the group.
Nobody wins and everyone loses.
Imagine taking an average student and placing them in an AP course. While some students rise to the occasion, Most flounder and withdraw inwards.
This harms the individual and forces the teacher to spend more time w those individuals causing the overall performance of the class to be reduced.