it doesnt help you graduate

So trust me, no one is using affirmative action all the way into neurosurgery.

@DrYuriMom I know that, this is a personality test used to sniff out bigoted hypocrites.

affirmative action is still a huge problem

So my answer is that I don't give a flying copulation what that person did in high school or bachelor degree. I care how they did in residency and fellowship.

If a person got into medical school on affirmative action but then rocked med school, completed residency with flying colors, and on that performance got into a fellowship and completed it while passing their boards - I'm game for that. I'm more concerned about experience and track record after they start performing on their own. Nothing stops a Harvard valedictorian from becoming an alcoholic later in life. I'm more worried about that than i am about what grades someone got five levels of training ago.

But yes, insofar as affirmative action starves a profession of the best possible practitioners, it is a problem. I am more inclined to improve our success at readying people to create or take opportunity than I am with rationing opportunity.

If we have to stack the deck after high school, it means we failed in primary and secondary school.

I am very aware of hypocrisy and I avoid it at all costs. I cannot both be horrified at the abuses of the Japanese medical education system and then passively accept thumbing the scales in the US.

Japanese women have been wronged, as have Asian Americans.

So here's a question that will make the fur fly, but it really gets to the heart of the matter.

How do we fix US primary and secondary education? Or does anyone here believe it isn't broken?

How do our Canadian and Europeeps feel about their own systems?

By not pretending like everyone needs to be equally represented in every institution

and letting people who are naturally good at things excel at those things

US education is fucked because of decentralised populations

hard to have stellar institutions in every county

My family is in education, and one thing they keep telling me is that across the board, black students generally don't give a **** about school.

And if you want better education you're gonna have to pay more

Japan has it down imo

They make you earn your education

But they still thumb the scales

But their cultural traditions go back thousands of years in that regard

Exactly

They weren't poisoned by this neo leftist garbage

Better women were denied access so that they could admit lesser qualified men

On average their women are much happier

despite being denied access

30 years ago, a teacher could shelve the class plans for the year and go off on a tangent if it got students involved and learning, but now, they are going over stuff because it will be on the standardized test, and teachers have no freedom

Not what my Japanese friends are saying, nor what i see in many statistics

They're in the minority. Most of my ex class mates work in Japan

They love actually having to earn their assimilation

Their crime rate is zero, streets insanely safe, and they subscribe to one culture

virtually zero*

Try pulling that privilege shit over there. Your faggy liberal ass will be fired before you can say arigatou

respecc boii

According to the IES - National Center for Educational Statistics there are 132,656 schools in the US (2008 numbers)

Japan has a very high cultural integration and ethnic homogamy.

^^^

how do you make 132k schools "good"

You dont live in Japan without assimilating