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@ryxcommar
Among the subset of "woke 1" things that were wrong and actually implemented as policies, the "standardized tests are discriminatory" stuff was probably the most egregious. They eviscerated the prestige of a public college! In net that likely makes the world less equal, not more!
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Senior PowerPoint Engineer
@ryxcommar
Like abolishing the police would be worse than messing with admissions at the UCs, but zero police departments were abolished whereas the UC admissions standards were actually changed.
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Jrrackerley
@Jrrackerley
The competition for “most egregious” policy of “woke 1” is far too competitive to quickly declare a quick winner.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker⚔️
@Nomads4Pritzker
Truly the worst of all possible worlds. Students that weren't ready for college were poorly-served by being admitted, deserving students weren't admitted, students that *were* ready had to deal with unready classmates, and the quality-signal of the degree was diluted overall.
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dfadsdaf
@dfadsdaf94761
Like in 5 years the UCs are going to have no value as a degree!! And nobody cares, they literally decided not to even consider resuming testing!
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JSONmaxxing
@JSONmaxxing
yeah once you read empirical studies it's very obvious that standardized tests mostly help poor people. Woke I was an elite movement that enacted many measures to screw over poor people in the name of "equity". if there's going to be a woke II, I hope it's less hypocritical.
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Jayne Dough
@JayneRDough
Same with gutting gifted programs in middle/high school—it just disadvantaged kids whose parents couldn’t afford outside tutoring.
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Jordan Segall
@jordansegall
Absolutely gutting the basic premises of the CA Master Plan for Higher Education, one of the great egalitarian higher ed programs
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constans
@constans
Consider that people advocating these policies don’t want public colleges to have prestige to ensure that higher socioeconomic students don’t attend them and can then be seen as colleges for “the people” rather than “elites” who can do arithmetic
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ian
@Ion_Salamander
this also sent a few years of lemons to the ivies, although they’re already requiring the test again
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Charlie Schaezlein
@cSchaez
This one made me so mad! The data they were citing always showed the tests were less discriminatory than any alternative and yet here we fucking are
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3firsts
@3firsts
Yeah that one was objectively bad form the start “go back to purely subjective markers of success because the objective markers of success could contain some subjective bias”
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Truth
@1foreverseeking
Are your memories so short that you forget how students were locked out of school because of Covid?
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Philip
@RealPhilycheese
I mean no the tests were for sure discriminatory tho lol if you had money you had tutors and could take the test as many times as you wanted. People without money had to work hard just to pay to take it once. It’s a $75 test cmon man
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