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Updated 10/14/98 7:45PM
The Quota Congress
Congress has approved what may be the most onerous kind of racial
preference imaginable: a graduation quota. Buried in a $3.5 billion
health education authorization is a provision mandating that
participating nursing schools not only admit and retain the members of
certain prescribed racial minorities at certain rates, but also graduate
them by quota. In other words, schools accepting federal funds under
this authorization would have to lower standards when they admit
students, hold them low throughout their schooling, and keep them low
upon exit. Maybe the schools should develop different grading scales for
different groups in order to comply with the law. Or better yet,
entirely different graduation requirements: Asian Americans and whites,
for instance, would need more credits than blacks and Hispanics to
graduate.
Bill Lann Lee couldn't have written a worse piece of legislation.
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