I thought the SAT's were racist. Math was deemed racist.

concordtom said:

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Thx for posting the image!
Thx very much !
I'm forwarding via text.
Daughter #5 takes the SAT this morning., while I help move #4 to a new apartment in Berkeley - she'll be a junior,

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5!?!? Kudos to you for making it through five girls. Good luck to #5 and congrats to #4.

PAC-10-BEAR said:

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I thought the SAT's were racist. Math was deemed racist.

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Thank God White Affirmative Action aka The Good Ole Boy System has never been deemed racist.

PAC-10-BEAR said:

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bearister said:

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PAC-10-BEAR said:

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I thought the SAT's were racist. Math was deemed racist.

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Thank God White Affirmative Action aka The Good Ole Boy System has never been deemed racist.

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At Harvard, they weed out Jews and Asians in spite of their SAT's.

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The SAT (like other standardized tests) has biases in it. The problem is and always has been that whatever other methods you are using to judge applicants (grades, essays, extracurriculars) will be EVEN MORE biased! The SAT was the least bad option for figuring out which kids had actually learned something.

sycasey said:

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The SAT (like other standardized tests) has biases in it. The problem is and always has been that whatever other methods you are using to judge applicants (grades, essays, extracurriculars) will be EVEN MORE biased! The SAT was the least bad option for figuring out which kids had actually learned something.

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As you probably know, for much of its history, the SAT was not about measuring what students had learned, but rather how much they were capable of learning. Sort of an IQ test, with the "A" standing for "aptitude". What it was designed to do was to identify smart, literate kids who hadn't -- for whatever reason -- been able to demonstrate much learning in school.

Ironically, it became criticized for its unfairness. So they changed it.

What was originally the Standardized Aptitude Test became the Standardized Assessment Test. Eventually, noticing the redundancy (an assessment is a test), they changed it again so that, now, the letters don't stand for anything!

Cal88 said:

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Kids today can use apps that scans and reads the content, perhaps many don't even have that attention span to listen.

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I see it in my students for sure. Any way they can use AI at home to try and get around homework, they will try. Usually they aren't able to reproduce said results in the classroom and it makes it very obvious.

bearister said:

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PAC-10-BEAR said:

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bearister said:

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PAC-10-BEAR said:

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I thought the SAT's were racist. Math was deemed racist.

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Thank God White Affirmative Action aka The Good Ole Boy System has never been deemed racist.

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At Harvard, they weed out Jews and Asians in spite of their SAT's.

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Ivy Leagues have to make room for White boy legacies like Kennedys and Bushes and those that buy their way in like Trumps and Kushners.

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