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17-08-2009 2:09pm#1
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all i'm saying is that college is no place for people that need 130 points reduction in their course in order to get in. it just doesnt give the incentive to people who do access programme to actually study too much. i mean i'm in access and i got 550 points so what now, does that mean i should be offered a place in medicine? just because of my background. postive discrimination is the worst thing that can be applied anywhere and sadly it pretty much undermines the cao system.
It doesn't undermine the system. In fact, it keeps it fair.
It's a simple fact that those of us who come from a privelaged background, a good supportive household, and who have enough money not to be worying about it, do better on average than those less well off.
This introduces an inherent unfairness into the system, because no child chooses their social class, yet it does affect their results. (Just like it affects their interests, likelyhood to commit crime etc.)
Thus, the richer, more well of students have an "unfair advantage" from the get go. The access programme merely assesses students and tries to offer them what they would have achieved, had they been one of the privelaged.
Who we are is essentially made up of two things; heredity, and environmet. Both of these make everyone unequal. The basic idea here is that those whose heredity allows it, should be accepted into college, and their environment should not affect our ruling of their achievement. The access programme does its best to remove the environment from the picture. [I am reading a brilliant book where much of this is explained from a criminality point of view, and I think it's important that you undertand it. Also, it's just a must read since you're doing law and it's written by the inimitable Clarence Darrow. It's yours on loan if you wish!]
Here is where I think the problem lies, Mario; you are one of the acceptions, and as such, you see this from the acception's point of view, without, possibly, the proper experience for empathy. You're very intelligent, and obviously able to not let other factors affect that. Perhaps if you were a millionaire, with a butler, you would have gotten 600 points, who knows
But the fact remains, that on average; John Smith, born into a privelaged world, will obtain higher marks than that exact same John Smith, had he been born in less well off surroundings.
And that simply cannot be fair.0 -
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