Because of the Colour of Their Skin
I've had some experience with Saskatchewan's attempts to bring aboriginals into the mainstream. Essentially, it consists of guaranteeing aboriginal spots in colleges and universities and includes lowering standards to get them in. Furthermore, government funding exists to the degree that the average aboriginal student has no concept, least of all desire, to ever pay for their own education. Paying for one's schooling is so beyond their experience they can't comprehend it.
I personally have aboriginal acquaintances who attend college sporadically and on a whim, while the state pays for childcare and their housing plus ridiculously large living allowances. They attend, for the freebies and have no desire to pursue any career in particular, least of all comprehend what that career would entail.
I'll take pause here to make it clear that I also have aboriginal acquaintances who have done well by the system ... have used tax payers money to get educated and have moved on from there into successful careers. But, I also have non-aboriginal acquaintances who have had to travel outside the province to get their education because the line for "whites" was years long as a result of aboriginal students que-jumping.
In their headlong rush to mainstream aboriginals the University of Saskatchewan, Federal Government, and Provincial government are demonstrating, perfectly, how to destroy professions and fill them with individuals with sub-standard skills who got to where they are purely because of the colour of their skin, not the content of their character:
The college continues its longtime pre-law summer program for aboriginal students. And although aboriginal students must still pass the LSAT exam, the college is allowed to be "flexible" on admissions for aboriginal students, he said.
The goal for the college is to have a ratio of aboriginal students that reflects Saskatchewan's population, he said. The college is receiving a steady number of applications in general, but fewer from aboriginal students, he said.
One reason may be the fierce competition among law colleges across Canada and other professions for talented aboriginal students. So the drop at the U of S may not be all bad news, Zlotkin said.
That said, the U of S "would like to have a lot of aboriginal law students" and will review the issue, he said.
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Merasty graduated from the First Nations University of Canada with a social work degree, and worked in Buffalo Narrows and later Pelican Narrows for several years at the school and health centre.
Then she decided she could help more people with a law degree. She attended the U of S pre-law summer school, but failed the final exam. She took English courses online to improve her reading and writing and passed.
, and no one else :
