Dennis Prager Show - UC Universities Drop Admissions Exams, There Are No Standards Left Aired: 2020-05-27 Duration: 06:50 === Proxy for Privilege (04:59) === [00:00:00] University of California will stop using the SAT. I actually, I'm thrilled. [00:00:07] I have such a dark view of the universities as such a negative force in our society. [00:00:13] I believe they make you stupid, and I think that they're there to indoctrinate rather than educate. [00:00:18] So I think that there are no standards left, no objective standards on how you'll get in is great. [00:00:24] It'll make the college degree worth even less in people's eyes. [00:00:29] Then people won't spend the money to go there. [00:00:33] How will they measure? [00:00:35] Look, I don't give a damn, frankly. [00:00:39] But I just don't know. [00:00:41] How will they measure what you know? [00:00:46] Your grade point average is nothing. [00:00:48] It is a joke. [00:00:49] 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. [00:01:06] Yes, I won't say that on the air. [00:01:08] Well, I'll say it on the air because now people think you said something. [00:01:10] It's a challenge for some. [00:01:11] That is right. [00:01:15] No SATs. [00:01:16] The University of California, Wall Street Journal, Board of Regions voted Thursday. [00:01:21] That was the last... [00:01:22] No, it was on Friday. [00:01:25] Yeah. [00:01:26] Voted last Thursday to stop using the SAT and ACT. What's ACT? Another exam like that? [00:01:35] Hey, what's going to happen to all these businesses that teach you how to get... [00:01:39] They're out of business. [00:01:41] Wow. [00:01:45] 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. [00:01:57] Oh good, that's multi-billion saved. [00:01:59] We need that. [00:02:01] The unanimous 23-0 vote ratified a proposal put forward last month by UC President Janet Napolitano. [00:02:08] Her heritage there. [00:02:10] It will be regarded as the darkest time in... [00:02:14] The University of California history. [00:02:16] She's the one who put out the list of microaggressions, remember? [00:02:22] To phase out the American college testing. [00:02:27] Thank you so much. [00:02:32] To phase out the exams over the next five years until the sprawling UC system can develop its own test. [00:02:38] More on that in a moment. [00:02:40] The test is proxy... [00:02:42] Oh, here it is. [00:02:44] The test is a proxy for privilege. [00:02:48] Wow. [00:02:49] I've got to remember that term. [00:02:51] You know, sometimes I look at you, I rarely insult you. [00:02:57] I have said it. [00:02:58] You are a proxy for privilege. [00:03:03] You're a PFP. I'm sorry. [00:03:07] But you actually, you identify with it, actually. [00:03:11] You're a proxy for privilege. [00:03:14] Sean is not a proxy for privilege. [00:03:19] Said Regent Cecilia Estolano, it is time it has been studied to death. [00:03:27] Okay, that's true. [00:03:29] It has been studied to death. [00:03:30] You know what I think of studies. [00:03:32] More than 1,000 colleges and universities have gone test optional. [00:03:37] With the pace of schools dropping the exam accelerating in recent years in an attempt to level the admissions playing field. [00:03:43] Of course, it's effortless to level the admissions playing field. [00:03:46] When there are no standards, it's like saying, you know what? [00:03:51] To make the basketball team, we will no longer test your ability to make a basket. [00:03:57] Is that, by the way, is that correct language? [00:04:00] Make a basket? [00:04:01] Or is that, like, childish? [00:04:04] Not shoot a hoop. [00:04:05] Shoot a hoop doesn't mean you got it in. [00:04:08] No, no, no, no. [00:04:09] Shoot a... [00:04:10] You act like I don't know the lingo of basketball. [00:04:14] I know make a basket is wrong. [00:04:16] That's why I'm openly acknowledging. [00:04:19] So I... Hit a bucket. [00:04:21] What is the language? [00:04:24] There he goes and he shoots and it's in. [00:04:28] He scores? [00:04:30] Okay. [00:04:32] Ms. Napolitano's proposal allows four years for the UC system to develop a new exam. [00:04:39] If it fails to create or adopt one, then it likely would cease to use any exam, said Robert Schaefer. === New Exam, No Failures (02:05) === [00:04:46] I hope they come up with one. [00:04:49] They're going to come up with one where nobody can fail. [00:04:52] Nobody could do better than anybody else. [00:04:54] It'll be, how do you feel about the two and two? [00:05:01] Not what is two and two. [00:05:02] How do you feel about two and two? [00:05:05] What would you like two plus two to equal? [00:05:10] 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? [00:05:27] You know what? [00:05:28] I'm going to make up an exam. [00:05:30] I think I should do a column. [00:05:32] Everybody should submit an exam that cannot possibly discriminate against anyone. [00:05:40] So, in other words, everybody has the same chance to get a high grade. [00:05:45] Get it? [00:05:46] So, what it'll be? [00:05:47] How do you feel about 2 plus 2? [00:05:51] What is your favorite color? [00:05:53] It'll be like the exam at Monty Python. [00:05:56] What is your favorite color? [00:06:02] Wait, what was the one where the guy failed and got swooped up? [00:06:07] What is the speed of the African swallow? [00:06:12] Remember that? [00:06:14] One of the great films. [00:06:17] Robert Schaefer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing. [00:06:24] Oh, the NCFOT. I agree with him. [00:06:37] How could they have a new exam? [00:06:38] Because the exam has to produce no results. [00:06:42] Right? [00:06:43] That's the whole point. [00:06:46] Remember, folks, everything the left touches, it ruins. [00:06:50] Ta-da!