A law professor at Georgetown University has been fired for pointing out that black students got lower grades in her classes. This was not due to racism. Black students get lower grades at selective colleges because they are admitted with lower grades and test scores than their non-black classmates, due to racial preferences in admissions at schools like Georgetown.
Recipients of non-racial preferences in admissions also get lower grades at the schools that admit them. I received lower than average grades as a student at Harvard Law School. Why? I was admitted with lower-than average credentials than most of my classmates (because I pledged to go into public-interest law afterwards). So I was less prepared than most of my classmates, and occasionally had to struggle to keep up with my classmates. This did not mean I flunked out of school: I later passed the bar exam, and later played a key role in litigating three Supreme Court decisions dealing with federalism and the constitutional separation of powers, one of which is discussed in the Washington Times.
NBC News reported earlier on the brewing controversy at Georgetown, which led to an investigation of Professor Sandra Sellers:
Some Georgetown University Law students and alumni are calling for the termination of a professor captured on video discussing the performance of Black students.
“I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower ones are Blacks, happens almost every semester," the professor said in the video.
The conversation between two law professors at the Washington, D.C., school was filmed and posted to the online database Panopto, where students, who have been attending classes virtually because of the pandemic, can access the recordings. The video is no longer available on the platform.
“We learned earlier this week that two members of our faculty engaged in a conversation that included reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students,” Georgetown Law Dean Bill Treanor wrote in a letter sent to the university Wednesday.
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