In a just and equal society does the best person get the job? Should the most qualified, best prepared, best possible candidate get an available job? Common sense would dictate so, but politics and attempts to have all races represented equally in public jobs make things much more tricky.
The US Supreme Court will consider the reverse discrimination claim of Marcarelli and a group of white firefighters this week. They all passed a promotion exam, but the city threw out the test because no blacks would have been promoted, saying the exam had a “disparate impact” on minorities likely to violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Indicating that the makeup of the test must have been the cause of the failure, the tests will likely be redesigned. This would be a strange twist as the tests were initially designed by a professional testing organization that specializes in removing racial bias from testing.
Maybe they should adopt the Army motto for test scores, “Don’t ask, Don’t tell”. Then we can all just forget education.
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