A new civil right

Namely, the “civil right to get a high-school diploma no matter how little you know, and consequently to have a high-school diploma that certifies precisely nothing about your abilities and which therefore has roughly no value in the job market.” Something at Harvard called the Civil Rights Project, in alliance with a bunch of litigious […]

Namely, the “civil right to get a high-school diploma no matter how little you know, and consequently to have a high-school diploma that certifies precisely nothing about your abilities and which therefore has roughly no value in the job market.” Something at Harvard called the Civil Rights Project, in alliance with a bunch of litigious pressure groups, is planning to secure this new right for America’s schoolkids, notes Mark Kleiman (Aug. 18)(via Kaus).

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