Friday, November 07, 2003
The Nengos are coming!
This op-ed from some Nengos asserts that people who oppose affirmative action do it simply because they're mean. Way to add to discourse.
Many of these students have survived enormous personal hardship. One girl has moved 10 times in her junior and senior years because her mother is manic depressive. Another has been diagnosed with breast cancer, while her mother recovers from drug addiction. A third, a sophomore being raised by her grandparents, is class president, cheerleader, sings in her school choir and sits on the school site council, while maintaining a 3.5 grade point average. These unbelievable youth breathe walk and dream of going to college.
Boys, however, do not deserve mention.
We have the position championed by minority representatives within the Anti-Affirmative Action camp.
Yes, that horrible minority, which, of course, always wins when it comes to polls and voting.
In the mean time, the lack of willingness to deal honestly with the divide between schools in working and middle class neighborhoods in the United States is running rampant. Neglect and budget slashing fall heavily on urban schools, the last to see the money from boom times and the first to see it go in a down turn.
Which is why it is important to improve schools. Oh, wait, were we arguing about affirmative action?
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