... our educational system". (collegeboard.com) Atkinson also stated, "Anyone involved in education should be concerned about how overemphasis on the SAT is distorting educational priories and practices, how the test is perceived by many as unfair, and how it can have a devastating impact on the self esteem and aspirations of young students.... Many universities, faced with having to choose among thousands of highly qualified ... and more difficult time and makes it harder to get into college. The SAT has unequal results tied to unequal education because of race, class and gender. Many educ...

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... programs have been defined by ethnicity, gender, and even sexual orientation. Populary called affirmative action, in reality, it is an unfair racist quota system. In 1964, during the senate debate on the proposed civil rights act of that year, the bills floor manager, Hubert Humphrey, "assured the Senate that nothing in (Title VII of) the bill would permit any official or courtto ... supposedly been held down by official policy has turned into a program of racial, ethnic and gender favortism. Since competitive employment is a zero-sum game, the requirement to to employ a member of a favo...

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