In ba.transportation Stan de SD wrote:
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> YOUR concept is definitely idiotic. You ignore the fact that there are
> different levels of aptitudes, abilities, and even interest in given areas
> among different groups, then scream "racism" when the outcome isn't
> "representative". We once had an administrator at a community college who
> had a similar mentality to yours. She decried that blacks were
> "underrepresented" in students transferring to math and science programs in
> the UC and CSU systems, and one of the instructors asked her how she
> expected 12% of the students accepted to these schools to be black when only
> 2-3% of the students in those programs were black to begin with? I recall
> that out of nearly 1000 students in the natural sciences department
> (Chemistry, Physics, Biology) there were maybe a dozen black students - and
> half of those were Africans. Fact of the matter was that black students
> simply weren't intrested in that academic track, despite the effort of the
> CC to offer all sorts of minority "outreach" programs to minorities.
And why do you suppose that is? And do you see that as a problem,
or should we just shrug our shoulders and move on?
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