Reservation system is crap

Topic started by Shankaran (@ u4-67-106.rescomp.berkeley.edu) on Tue Nov 18 03:08:09 EST 2003.
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There is a difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. One is to make sure that all people have the equal chance to succeed in life. The other is that all people end up doing as well as each other through external forces. The first is a noble duty of any government. The second which is what the reservation system represents is complete ethnic nonsense, and reduces the quality of education, and consequently the legitimacy of those who have had to work hard to reach that position. People say things like, "he just got here through reservation" and give people no respect just based on their caste, when in reality that person might have worked for his college education and gotten in without the reservation quotas. If the government wants more SCs/BCs in government colleges, it should target the root of the problem, not the final effect, by establishing strong tribal schools, improving the quality of "corporate schools" and try to institute some social welfare to slowly improve the socioeconomic conditions of the poor, not just randomly give college seats away when more qualified people are getting rejected.


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