The new score will calculate a student’s disadvantage level by looking at 15 factors including their high school, hometown and family.
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Racism is racism.
My children will be punished for my decision not to take drugs and get an education.
so if im a smart person in a "poor" area I get a 1600?????
I'm not sure about this….both my parents were from the "ghetto", got married, father was abusive, moved to the suburbs during high school, all of my family still lived in the "ghetto", got divorced AFTER I graduated. If I took the SAT with this information, it would make it seem like I came from the perfect background. Marriaged parents living in a low crime area (low adversity score) and truly, I may spend weekends in the "ghetto" my my mother is technically a single parent in real life but on paper she's married. And I've only been in a suburban school for about 2 years which would make me (high adversity).
I don’t care who you are, what you look like, where you came from, or what you have been through… Everyone has to agree that this is just fucking wrong.
Lets go race over merit
THAT IS FUCKING BULLSHIT
Its not about race for the wise guys in the comment section.
Adversity score: *exists
Asian students: Heh. I’m in trouble.
This ain't it chief.
Goes to a decent high school: -200 pts
Lives in a decent neighborhood: -300 pts
Mom and dad are doctors: -400 pts
Speaks English: -1000 pts
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Huge fail idea. Fix the schools & neighborhoods so the kids actually learn something & can compete instead of dumbing them down with false entitlements. Not doing them any favors in the job market or real world.
Yes Im glad we are helping those poor ignorant minorities. They need all the help they can get
Level the playing field? Just more to hurt us. This is the Coleman guy that was behind a Common Core
It’s official: As an employer, I will not hire anyone born after 1990. The vast majority of “adults” born after that year are not able to cope with reality and I’m not willing to sift through the drek to find the diamond in the rough.
He said its a "fair solution". Yeah, its fair giving people more points for not doing as well as other people. Pathetic, just dumbing down one student at a time.
So basically, someone can spend 17 years of their life working crazy hard, but in the end can’t get into the college they deserve because they happen to live in a high income area? What if you live in a high income area because of how hard your family worked?
Does it take into account learning disability? Household income to dependeny ratio? What about abusive parents? There are far tol many factors to consider when it comes to adversity to math it.
does the ''adversity score'' make fair, subjectivity issues when SAT grading, or perhaps when students have less height, wider noses, darker skin, or perhaps are of East/South Asian ancestry, medical issues, learning issues, self-esteem issues, concentration issues, home abuse issues…imbeciles. they opened up a can of stupidity. why, does the Left insist on playing God? – don't they know what happened to Jesus when he tried?
It's not a fair solution. The test is called "standardized" for a goddamn reason.
This is awesome let's level the playing field a bit.
Bless the retarded.
No one in America is oppressed. Everyone has equal opportunities if you work hard and educate yourself. End of story, stop coddling the morons.
More reasons not to waste money on a worthless college degree.
The dumbing down of America takes yet another great leap forward!!!
Who will be measuring the adversity? Will they have to take a test? Also, did he say the more “privileged” kids will have more expectations? I grew up in the projects. Bombed the SAT’s. Got a full tuition leadership scholarship. SAT’s didn’t define me. This is pandering, patronizing, and the worst crutch.
It will be challenged in court
Oh, come on…..