Jesus Christ this is dark: colleges buy low-scoring SAT names from the College Board, and then *encourage students to apply knowing they will reject them* to boost their selectivity rating. One of a million kinds of perfectly legal ways poor people are fucked over every day.
-
-
agreed re: 1, that's low-class move. On 2... I tend to think it's parents' responsibility to get their kids ready for life. We do outsource academics to schools, but we shouldn't rely on random people to teach our kids how to succeed in life. So it's not school's job. -
Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, this country has parents who care about their next hit of heroin or check than their kids. Also, a lot of parents are themselves unable to teach this stuff because they don't know it. Therefore, we can either do what should be a parents
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.