How to Level the College Playing Field
16th April 2018
This is a typical Crustian New York Times thumb-sucker from an Ashkenazi Jew who has successfully assimilated into the Establishment. A brief look at his bio on Wikipedia shows the typical Crustian curriculum vitae: Selective NY magnet high school, Ivy league undergrad and law school, career on Wall Street leading to modern-day-mandarin jobs in public education and foundation work.
The unspoken assumption throughout the article is that it is somehow an Obvious Bad Thing that more kids from rich families go to college than kids from poor families. I’ll play straight man and ask: Why? More kids from rich families get to drive BMWs than kids from poor families; nobody appears to care about that. More kids from rich families get no-show jobs in government and NGOs than kids from poor families (yeah, I’m looking at you, Chelsea Clinton), yet nobody wrings their hands about it in the New York Times. What makes ‘poor kids’ so uniquely gifted that there needs to be a special effort to get them into college? Somehow this effort is needed ‘to make sure higher education is aligned with the democratic values we share.’ Really? How so? The answer is not provided.
The best thing ‘selective schools’ could do for kids from poor families is return to the system of academic merit that was trashed when too many grubby Jews (and, nowadays, Asians) started crowding the Children of the Crust out of ‘selective schools’. The problem with that, of course, is that too many offspring of the Fashionable Victim class would be rejected, and in today’s Politically Correct world that’s not only unacceptable, it’s unthinkable.