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âCandidates who choose this licensing path will avoid the heavy expense of preparing for the traditional bar examâa burden that falls disproportionately on historically disadvantaged groups, including first-generation graduates, women, and candidates of color,â according to a report on the proposal.
This is woketopia in action. They lowered the law school admission standards, so the student population would be more diverse. Then they ran into the next issue of too many minorities were failing the bar exam. Now theyâll get rid of the bar exam. I wonder how long before they do get rid of board exams for doctors too?
Of course, Iâm sure the rich and powerful love it. They can afford the good lawyers, and now theyâll have an even bigger advantage of lower income people who will get lawyers that canât even pass the bar exam.
How low can CA go before it falls on itâs face is the question.
The bar is low
Iâm neither a supporter or opposer but why is the below mentioned criteria inferior to bar exam?
The State Barâs Board of Trustees on Thursday unanimously voted to gather public comments on a proposed new program in which law graduates would receive provisional licenses and work under the supervision of an experienced attorney for four to six months while being paid. During that time, candidates would compile a portfolio of work that would be graded by the state bar. Those who earn a passing grade on their portfolios would become fully licensed in California without taking the bar exam.
âciting research that shows Black and Hispanic examinees have lower pass rates than white bar takers in California.â
I am not a law person, but after reading the article I felt that this is the real reason this alternative is being proposed. The rules are being changed to allow these examinees that canât otherwise pass to be able to pass. In other words, the bar exam itself exudes racism and this is the first step to rid it.
An exam is too black and white to be manipulated (to the level some want). A âholistic evaluationâ is much more desirable because it can reflect everything about each candidate including race and income level. Thatâs why colleges are abandoning standardized tests because the tests are too racist to be fair.
So Black and Hispanic people get special treatment going into college and becoming licensed lawyers. When they graduate and start working, there is no reason they should not get special treatment either along the same line of thought. They should be expected to do less work at the same pay, or solve simpler problems, and be first in line for promos. If some of you donât agree, no problem, there will be some new laws for rectify the situation.
Do you think most people will fail the new criteria? Most people fail the bar exam. Itâs a comprehensive exam covering all reqs of the law.
Whatâs next? Get rid of medical boards? What about the professional engineer or CPA exam? They are trying to get equal outcomes by lowering the bar.
Effectively they want the standards to be different based on your race and socio-economic status. I am actually fine with the idea because it does make sense, but they shouldnât try to hide the fact that itâs blatant racism. Facts are facts, and it should be called as it is. You canât call racism when it doesnât work for you, and keep silent when it does.
For black people I can understand the past slavery and redlining and all that, but I donât get why racism against Hispanics is at the same level that they need such special elevated treatment. I googled racism against Hispanics and the answers are all pretty generic, and they all say Hispanics are discriminated against almost equally by non-Hispanics and Hispanics themselves. So what I am getting from this is what they really want to fix is discrimination against lower income folks, which is a noble thing to do, but they shouldnât get to play the race card too because thatâs not what it looks like.
If we want open borders because US has a lot of labor needs, fine letâs open it up but donât open it up only for Mexico and central American countries. Letâs get people from Asia and Africa too in proportional amounts. Why do Latinos make better immigrants than others? Just because they are closer to us geographically? I donât get why there is so much favoritism for Latinos in this country. US is already on its way to become a Latino-dominant country in some number of years, so why do we need to accelerate it further?
I think people starting this BS should lead by example. They should only hires lawyers that didnât pass the bar. Once it gets to medical professionals, then they can select doctors who didnât pass the boards.
We had a black man become president. Can we please stop with the rhetoric about how racist America is? I honestly think all this hand holding is racist. These people are saying black people canât pass the bar exam on their own merits. Thatâs insulting to black people who do pass it.
In terms of socio economic factors, first generation immigrants from many countries move here dirt poor. Their kids end up far more successful than equal income kids born in America. How is that happening in such a racist country?
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I donât like this. Life and death.
Setting aside whether the proposal is good or not, the new pathway is available to all races. I donât get the argument why itâs favoring blacks and Latinos.
Lawyers is one of the few professions where people actually care where you get your degree. That will never go away. Someone who got their degree from Santa Clara U is never treated the same as one who graduated from Stanford. Doesnât matter whether they both pass the bar exams.
Vastly different in medical doctors. Nobody I know insist on only seeing Harvard or Stanford or UCSF grads. Most feel MDs are interchangeable.
If they think the bar is too high for the current bar exam such that those who would make great lawyers are not able to pass, they should just make it simpler. Why go through all this trouble of providing an alternative route? Of course they wonât say they will give special treatment to certain races, because it would be blatant racism, wouldnât it? 
The goal is to replace the pass/fail exam with another approach which is not as black-n-white and which provides a ton of room to âplay withâ so that it would be easier to manipulate the outcome. I am actually surprised that they are publicly saying that part of the reason for this alternative approach is because many minority examinees canât pass the exam. I suppose there are many non-minority examinees also failing the exam but that doesnât result in any proposal like this one.
In many Asian countries there are college entrance exams that everyone takes. There were lots of debates on whether thatâs the right way to select candidates because itâs just one test that can make a huge difference in many studentsâ lives, but in the end itâs about the only fair way to give everyone a chance. But in the US nowadays itâs the selection method under attack precisely because itâs âunfairâ.
âThe company will close one store in New York Cityâs Harlem neighborhood, two locations in Seattle, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area and three more in Portland, Oregon. The discounter said it will shutter the stores for good on Oct. 21.â
Did you read till the end?
Targetâs mounting struggles go deeper than theft
Targetâs business has struggled for more than a year with company-specific challenges, including a glut of unsold inventory, backlash to its Pride merchandise collection and a pullback in consumer spending on discretionary items such as apparel and home goods.
Over the past two decades, Target had not mentioned shrink hitting its margins during earnings calls until August 2022, when the companyâs and other retailersâ profits were getting hurt by higher markdowns while trying to unload unwanted merchandise, CNBC previously reported. When inventories rise, shrink tends to increase as well, industry experts told CNBC.
Despite store closures, shrink data is murky
Target announced the store closures on the same day the National Retail Federation, the industryâs major trade association, released its latest National Retail Security Survey. The survey foundthe effect of theft on retailersâ bottom lines is about the same as it has been for years.
Total retail shrink grew to more than $112 billion in 2022, up from $93.9 billion the year before, according to the survey. The metric is calculated using total U.S. retail sales and generally rises as retail sales climb.