"Minority students are innately as smart as anyone else and deserve nothing less than a high school education that will allow them to compete on merit." If anyone thought differently it would be those who push affirmative action as the panacea for black enrollment into major colleges. The problem is not in enrolling black students but in keeping them and graduating them four years later. If black kids are ill prepared to enter college because of failing high schools, which seems to be the number one issue, then all the changes in admission standards will still be for naught because they would still be shut out. Maybe the CUNY schools should have put the the $56 million they spent on building their new dorm into high school programs that help underpriviledge kids.
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