Affirmative Action In Schools

Affirmative action is a highly controversial topic among many people. For some, affirmative action is seen as a great set of policies that ends discrimination in the workforce and the educational system. For others though, affirmative action seems to worsen the problem it is set out to end. While the diversity and the amount of opportunities that minorities get with affirmative action does increase, reverse discrimination is very apparent. This then causes two sides where one side is reaping the benefits of affirmative action while the other side is at a disadvantage, which causes the problem affirmative action looks to fix. Affirmative action is currently banned in eight states and in nearly all of those states, the government is working on …show more content…
They go there for the opportunity college creates for them after school. In today’s society, going to a high quality university is a key point employers look at when they are hiring employees. For something as important as college resources that are currently being used in affirmative action could be used in other places to prepare students for adulthood. A quote from the article “Affirmative Action Isn’t Just a Legal One, It’s Also a Historical One Too” the author states “Schools could analyze what their student bodies would look like if they stopped considering race and instead pursued other initiatives, like increasing financial aid or focusing on socio-economic status” (Bollinger). In the quote Bollinger is saying that if schools would stop worrying about having diversity at their school they could start putting more of their resources and time into more important issues such as financial aid. Currently in the United States, the highly expensive costs of college is a problem that many people face. This problem could be fixed by riding of affirmative action altogether. If schools would stop worrying about affirmative action, financial aid and other problems could be resolved or focused on fixing, allowing for college to be more affordable and desirable to students with these recently fixed problems. Affirmative action isn’t entirely the college or the workplaces fault either, Workers and students …show more content…
At some workplaces the low amount of diversity could be seen as them being racist or not effectively using affirmative action. From the article “From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity” the author argues, “Getting hired is not the problem-women and blacks who are seen as having necessary skills and energy can get into the workforce relatively easily. It’s later on that many of them plateau and lose their drive and quit or get fired” (Thomas 6). R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr is arguing that minorities aren’t being fired because they are minorities, but that they are losing their drive to work, causing them to be fired or quit. How the employees treat the newly diverse workers and how they act and work can be a real cause for the high amount of diversity in a workplace, while it can also be the cause for lack of diversity in the workplace. If the diverse workers are fired or leaves due to them being inadequate for what they are responsible for, it then causes it to seem like affirmative action is needed in workplaces around the country. For many workers around the country affirmative action is an uphill battle that they fight