"In Silver Spring, Maryland, the parents of a seven year old sued the Montgomery County School Board after their son was barred from transferring to a math and science magnet school because it would reduce the proportion of whites in his old school." ... His said it was "wrong to allow minority students with lower IQ scores than whites and Asians to be admitted into gifted programs because of their race. ... A study done in 1997 for the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a good example of how affirmative action policies have failed and are meaningless due to the number of academically unpr...

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Turner claims that affirmative action programs that recruit black students contribute to "the significant number of black students dropping and failing out of colleges that they are unprepared to academically complete [Tur03]." The retention rate among minorities is unsettling: while 59% of whites graduate within six years of enrolling in college, only 38% of blacks and 46% of Hispanics do the same. ...

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