SAT “ADVERSITY SCORE” WILL STRENGTHEN UNIVERSITY REEDUCATION CAMPS

SAT “ADVERSITY SCORE” WILL STRENGTHEN UNIVERSITY REEDUCATION CAMPS

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The use of an Adversity Score matrix is a vile step into bureaucratic thought control and a big step away from merit based education. The Adversity Matrix is a subjective road towards indoctrinating students. Instead of right or wrong information, anyone that is easily propagandized or is an adherent to progressive ideas can be unfairly favored in this process. It would be another means to coerce students into accepting progressive ideology or face the firing squad of being erased from higher education by unethical professor’s biased failing grades to eliminate any resistance to their brainwashing.

Most people realize the SAT and ACT exams are supposed to test college aptitude. These tests are supposed to discriminate between the students who will do well in college and those who will not. They are not infallible or even accurate testing instruments but they are part of the admission process that evaluates student ability, skills, community service and life experiences.

There are students who do not do well in higher academic grades because of their attitudes and/or behavior. Yet these students might have developed academic skills through their out-of-school activities such as reading, media, family or friends. The SAT examination is supposed to validate the skills and student readiness to do well in college.

Currently, David Coleman, executive head of the SAT board and architect of the failed Common Core program stated; “the Adversity Score gives contextual information for colleges to better evaluate students.” There are fifteen socio-economic factors such as crime and poverty rate to arrive at this score by using the student’s zipcode. The score will be from 1-100 below 50 shows hardship and above denotes privilege. Students will not be informed of the score. There will not be an iota of transparency to fight this arbitrary process.

America has already witnessed many students failing courses for only voicing traditional American viewpoints rather than buying the socialist-communist ones. Presently conservative speakers are frequently banned from college campuses for arguing against socialist policies. Antifa affiliated students attending these debates violently riot disrupting the university’s sponsored educational program without receiving punishment. The administration must protect the right of all students’ free speech.

This Orwellian scheme is already being used by 50 universities and is slated to increase to 150 by next year. Colleges will have an arbitrary number that is “supposed” to be helpful in selecting students. This is another bureaucratic gimmick to replace merit by an “identity politics matrix.”

People overcome all types of obstacles in their lives besides dealing with socio economic conditions. People from all levels of society have overcome many kinds of adversity. An affluent student who has received no love or support but rather psychological or physical abuse will be overlooked. Illness, death of a loved one, handicaps, drug or alcohol addiction will not be part of the evaluative equation. The socio economic scale is a limited and unjust way to discriminate in selecting students who will be successful at the university.

There is every reason for David Coleman not to reveal a student’s score. Just like Common Core it will give less ammunition for adversaries to point out the program’s liabilities. It will rightfully open up a Pandora’s Box of objections to this arbitrary score of the student. It is better for the SAT bureaucracy to remain secretive of the underhanded workings of the social engineering being done by the  educational elites. This addition to the SAT score will do away with students who work hard to reach a higher level of competency. Instead, it would select groups of students already prone or easily politically indoctrinated to follow the progressive political ideology.

By replacing a partial merit system with a full blown politically motivated one our nation will be doomed to be governed by a small powerful group of progressive elites. The dumbing down of our education system has happened at warp speed. The disgraceful condition of it has been hidden through grade inflation eliminating cursive writing, history, geography, critical thinking and lowering the SAT standards to disguise the low quality of our current student knowledge base.

Most importantly, the lack of freedom of speech and debate in our present universities has curtailed the diversity of thought and created narrow minded students.  Critical thinking is being punished by enforcing “Political Correctness” thought control.

We must stop these anti American educational practices by withholding federal funds, legally prosecuting professors for punishing student rights to express contrary viewpoints and have them sign a pledge to uphold our Constitution and Bill of Rights. For America to be free again we must demand well documented, not revisionist history knowledge and critical thinking ability of citizens. 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.