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...real problem; So is correct there. The SAT is but one symptom of a much larger societal shutout of certain minority groups. Racial and class bias in the SAT is only one example...
Austin So's letter, "Attack the Real Problems, Not Just the SAT" (Crimson, May 21), rejected best bias as an adequate explanation for the fact that SAT scores of African American students are, on average, lower than those of white students. Instead, he attributes an imaginary lack of "respect for education" to the African-American students community. This view is insulting representing an unfounded critique of African-American Cultural values. It is also dangerous. So exemplifies the backward thinking that has plunged the American public school system into its current situation...
When So finally addresses the issue of SAT test bias, he concludes, "The solution is not to edit out exam material that most minority students are unfamiliar with, the solution is to familiarize them." So misses the point. Why should anyone have to understand the securities market or chess in order to qualify as intelligent or worthy of admission into Harvard? So's statement is an example of the misguided administrators that has resulted in high dropout rates, student apathy, and low self esteem, phenomena which so ascribes to faulty cultural values. It is high time for educational administrators...
...very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...sure, if you asked, the Lord High Poobahs of Peninsula would be deliriously happy to point out similar instances of University bias...