May 27, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
06:50
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| University of California will stop using the SAT. I actually, I'm thrilled. | |
| I have such a dark view of the universities as such a negative force in our society. | |
| I believe they make you stupid, and I think that they're there to indoctrinate rather than educate. | |
| So I think that there are no standards left, no objective standards on how you'll get in is great. | |
| It'll make the college degree worth even less in people's eyes. | |
| Then people won't spend the money to go there. | |
| How will they measure? | |
| Look, I don't give a damn, frankly. | |
| But I just don't know. | |
| How will they measure what you know? | |
| Your grade point average is nothing. | |
| It is a joke. | |
| Everybody gets an A. You actually, in order not to get an A, I think you have to be incapable of writing the letters of the English alphabet. | |
| Yes, I won't say that on the air. | |
| Well, I'll say it on the air because now people think you said something. | |
| It's a challenge for some. | |
| That is right. | |
| No SATs. | |
| The University of California, Wall Street Journal, Board of Regions voted Thursday. | |
| That was the last... | |
| No, it was on Friday. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Voted last Thursday to stop using the SAT and ACT. What's ACT? Another exam like that? | |
| Hey, what's going to happen to all these businesses that teach you how to get... | |
| They're out of business. | |
| Wow. | |
| College admissions exams reshaping college admissions in one of the largest and most prestigious university systems in the country and dealing a significant blow to the multi-billion dollar college admission testing industry. | |
| Oh good, that's multi-billion saved. | |
| We need that. | |
| The unanimous 23-0 vote ratified a proposal put forward last month by UC President Janet Napolitano. | |
| Her heritage there. | |
| It will be regarded as the darkest time in... | |
| The University of California history. | |
| She's the one who put out the list of microaggressions, remember? | |
| To phase out the American college testing. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| To phase out the exams over the next five years until the sprawling UC system can develop its own test. | |
| More on that in a moment. | |
| The test is proxy... | |
| Oh, here it is. | |
| The test is a proxy for privilege. | |
| Wow. | |
| I've got to remember that term. | |
| You know, sometimes I look at you, I rarely insult you. | |
| I have said it. | |
| You are a proxy for privilege. | |
| You're a PFP. I'm sorry. | |
| But you actually, you identify with it, actually. | |
| You're a proxy for privilege. | |
| Sean is not a proxy for privilege. | |
| Said Regent Cecilia Estolano, it is time it has been studied to death. | |
| Okay, that's true. | |
| It has been studied to death. | |
| You know what I think of studies. | |
| More than 1,000 colleges and universities have gone test optional. | |
| With the pace of schools dropping the exam accelerating in recent years in an attempt to level the admissions playing field. | |
| Of course, it's effortless to level the admissions playing field. | |
| When there are no standards, it's like saying, you know what? | |
| To make the basketball team, we will no longer test your ability to make a basket. | |
| Is that, by the way, is that correct language? | |
| Make a basket? | |
| Or is that, like, childish? | |
| Not shoot a hoop. | |
| Shoot a hoop doesn't mean you got it in. | |
| No, no, no, no. | |
| Shoot a... | |
| You act like I don't know the lingo of basketball. | |
| I know make a basket is wrong. | |
| That's why I'm openly acknowledging. | |
| So I... Hit a bucket. | |
| What is the language? | |
| There he goes and he shoots and it's in. | |
| He scores? | |
| Okay. | |
| Ms. Napolitano's proposal allows four years for the UC system to develop a new exam. | |
| If it fails to create or adopt one, then it likely would cease to use any exam, said Robert Schaefer. | |
| I hope they come up with one. | |
| They're going to come up with one where nobody can fail. | |
| Nobody could do better than anybody else. | |
| It'll be, how do you feel about the two and two? | |
| Not what is two and two. | |
| How do you feel about two and two? | |
| What would you like two plus two to equal? | |
| And in a better world, a world free of racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, anthropophobia, germophobia, in such a world, what would two plus two equal? | |
| You know what? | |
| I'm going to make up an exam. | |
| I think I should do a column. | |
| Everybody should submit an exam that cannot possibly discriminate against anyone. | |
| So, in other words, everybody has the same chance to get a high grade. | |
| Get it? | |
| So, what it'll be? | |
| How do you feel about 2 plus 2? | |
| What is your favorite color? | |
| It'll be like the exam at Monty Python. | |
| What is your favorite color? | |
| Wait, what was the one where the guy failed and got swooped up? | |
| What is the speed of the African swallow? | |
| Remember that? | |
| One of the great films. | |
| Robert Schaefer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. | |
| Oh, the NCFOT. I agree with him. | |
| How could they have a new exam? | |
| Because the exam has to produce no results. | |
| Right? | |
| That's the whole point. | |
| Remember, folks, everything the left touches, it ruins. | |
| Ta-da! |
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