Overlooking Potential Honor Ro

Everyone wants their school to be the best. They want them to have the best sports teams, perform the best over all on standardize tests, and have the best extra curricular activities. This is what the University High School admissions board has in mind when looking through the applications usually numbering around 750-900 for the next school year to offer admission to only 150 of those applicants. In reality, they divide the applicants into districts according to where they live, then subdivide those into racial groups. After those have been considered is when they look at who has the potential to offer University High the most, in a variety of areas. They have to accept a certain number of students from each district and a certain amount of students of different ethnic backgrounds to be seen as politically correct. The question being posed here is whether or not that is to the benefit of U-High. During the course of trying to answer that question, two sides of the argument are to be considered. The first is that the way that it is being done is the fairest way in making sure that there is no racial or economic discrimination.

The second side to the argument is that there might be a larger number of gifted students in a certain group that can not all be admitted into U-High because it could be seen as if they were being favored. Both sides of the argument will be examined more carefully.

To begin with, in the past, our country has demonstrated great racial discrimination. There was segregation, and there were also hate groups. There were people that believed that people other than whites were inferior to those of white skin color. However, lately there has been a wonderful realization in our society. The majority of our society views it as wrong to discriminate. It is seen as politically incorrect. Though there are no laws telling people how to think, there are, however, laws that prohibit discrimination in the workforce and most important to this issue, laws prohibiting discrimination in the educational system. To ensure and mostly to prove that there is no racial hatred towards any ethnic groups, U-High adopted a new way to process the applications of possible future students. They now have a quota of students with certain ethnic backgrounds to meet. This ensures that there is no racial discrimination.

I want to stress a very crucial point. This paper is in no way intended to be racist. I encourage the minorities to continue to fight for equality in society and in the minds of all. I applaud those like Martin Luther King Jr. who dedicated their whole existence to fight and stand up for what is fair, right, and moral. Though I do believe that it is not right to force equality in areas where there might be more qualified individuals in a certain ethnic group, and deny that which should be accredited to them justly so.

A child growing up cultured is also one concern of many of the parents in today's society. They want their children to be exposed to all that life has to offer and to a different variety of people. They do not want their child to grow up blinded to the fact every one in the world is not exactly the same as they are. They want their children to realize and learn tolerance of the many different religions that people have, the different backgrounds that shape who they are. There is no better way to do this, then through the school that they grow up and are educated in. So, in choosing whom to accept, the school has to also consider the parents' wishes in this as well. Accepting a certain amount of different backgrounds seems to be the best solution when faced with this issue.

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