(January 12, 2014 at 5:18 am)(╯°◊°）╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: I agree insofar as affirmative action should be based on a person's economic status rather than race (since it is poverty rather than racism which is the real barrier to most African-Americans).
Public schools should be funded fairly and evenly in proportion to the number of students. University-level education should be an investment by a country's government into its future, not a profit-driven debt swamp that many kids don't even have the privilege to drown in.
Affirmative action means Oprah Winfreys Kids win out over the children of unemployed miners in West Virginia.
As for affirmative action for poor people you then get into absurd areas. Best idea would be for more support so all children can be supported in school so as to remove any things holding them back -like no place to study outside school.
Personally the US should have national examinations like every other county does so a Child from Massachusetts sits the same exams as a child from Arkansas.
University level education in the US is a shambles for such a wealthy country . You science education is quite good but your 'liberal arts' are a shambles and a way to rip off students who pay a fortune for almost no return.
