Reading, Writing, and Rape

The New York Times finally said it. After years of applauding the efforts of educational politicians to turn the City University of New York into kindergarten, the Times blandly editorialized last October: “Would CUNY’s high standards not be better preserved, while the number of entering students was being reduced, by imposing higher admission qualifications on all students?”

Why was not this patent plea for elitism signed Uriah Heep? When the city’s Board of Higher Education first started emitting dismaying data about its new open admissions policy, the liberals bayed back that it was too early to decide. And as the statistics persisted, the head of CUNY’s Women’s Advisory Committee retorted that “the depth of the problem won’t be understood by statistics.” Through last year, CUNY’s dropout rate was nearly 50 per cent. Kind of expensive.

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The New York Times finally said it. After years of applauding the efforts of educational politicians to turn the City University of New York into kindergarten, the Times blandly editorialized last October: “Would CUNY’s high standards not be better preserved, while the number of entering students was being reduced, by imposing higher admission qualifications on all students?”

Why was not this patent plea for elitism signed Uriah Heep? When the city’s Board of Higher Education first started emitting dismaying data about its new open admissions policy, the liberals bayed back that it was too early to decide. And as the statistics persisted, the head of CUNY’s Women’s Advisory Committee retorted that “the depth of the problem won’t be understood by statistics.” Through last year, CUNY’s dropout rate was nearly 50 per cent. Kind of expensive.