Based on merit ? So I guess you would agree that anyone who can get the grades required should have access to any school they want. Anyone who could get gets the grades (or pass the admission test) should be allowed to attend any prestigious college they want, right ? If a black guy from a poor familly living in a shitty neighborhood in Chicago could meet the "academic" requirements, he or she should have access to Georgetown, Princeston or Harvard, right ?
And I guess the schoold admission scandal that blow up a few weeks ago got you outraged, right ?
To me, whatever the studies they made or whatever anything, everyone deserves at least :
- food on the table,
- a roof over one's head,
- any education they can meet the academics required
- any healthcare they need.
I'm not talking about owning the newest Iphone, or Netflix subscription, I'm talking about basic stuff : home, food, health and education. These for should be constitutionnal rights in every modern civilised countries.
Yes merit, if you work hard at school and that you get very good grades, you get automatically a chance to get a good job. In Chicago like in Newark, dunces or worst pupils chose the thug gang life over sacrificing themselves for studies and having a good jobs, they think about easy money and living on welfare.
Also there are the level of education and the income of the parents which play a role but the person is always a master of her destiny and that depends of her willingness to achieve her goals
For your information, West Point To Graduate Record Number of African-American Women in 2019 Class
https://www.westernjournal.com/west...ff_campaign=pushtraffic&ff_content=2019-05-23
I applaud these women for having outdone themselves and be diplomed from the highest and most important military institution. If many other people followed their example that would be a good thing.
Even in France, you have to pay a lot of money to get into a top notch school kinda like in the USA and often a well paid job requires very solid stress to resistance and speaking more than one language.
Nothing is never free nor granted for these reasons:
-if the person is junkie or a drug addict who wastes her money on drug and alcohol and doesn't work, it is absolutely normal that he/she doesn't get social helps and even social housing
-the person has chosen a job depending of the salary of this job, she pays the pricetag for the food she can afford same comment for the pricetag appartment she is renting
-education system has gone downhill in France especially with socialists (thanks to Najat Voilaud Belkacem's stupidity), so it is normal that parents of children from good and wealthy families don't want to see their kids mixed with dunces coming from shitty hoods, they put them in a private school.
-healthcare, in France, quality of public hospitals went to shit since 1995 and when you see who works in public hospitals , you can see why people prefer go to private hospitals. None wants to pay healthcare for a parasite who has never contridbuted economically for the economy of the country who welcomed him.
People should be systematically responsabilized for their acts and the choices they made especially being when being more than 18 years old. Home , food and education weren't, aren't and won't be constitutional rights, wanting to make them constitutional rights are turning a democracy into a socialist dictatorship. When you chose a way of living and a certain lifestyle, you assume fully and plainly the consequences and don't expect others to pay for you.
