Dickey, Harvard & the few other colleges that you mention just started this practice. You said many. Name me many that have been doing this practice for any number of years.

I do know that in the US K-12 is free, I'm still putting 2 through their schooling, 1 in college & 1 on his way this yr.

So what are you trying to say?

<"Why do the Asian Americans do so much better in school, graduating more often and continuing through college more often? Are they more privileged than other xxx-american minorities?">

<"The national graduation rate for the public school class of 2000 was 69%. The rate for white students was 76%; for Asian students it was 79%; for African-American students it was 55%; for Hispanic students it was 53%; and for Native Americans it was 57%."
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_31.htm">

<"The study, released recently by the Public Policy Institute of California, found that only 13 percent of Hispanics and 15 percent of Blacks had earned a bachelor's degree. That compared with rates of 31 percent for Whites and 62 percent for Asian Americans, based on 2000 Census data.">

<"The study found that 11 percent of American Indians earn bachelor's degrees, the lowest rate of any group.">

Again, what are you trying to say Dickey?

Are you trying to point out that American minorities a born too stupid or too poor. That they are they from a more socio-economic depressed class? Are you thinking that Asian Americans are born wealthier or that they're born brighter?

I'm not challenging your stats Dickey, which I'd tend to be ok with. But seeing as you attached my name to them I'm wondering what the point was & if you're trying to say that the xxx-american minorities can only fault themselves for being born too poor, born too stupid or just had the bad luck of being too stupid & too poor to pull themselves out of a rut?

Barry