Yep...It is a crock of...

First, let me preface this by saying the 50 K has not been stolen yet! You see, that is what it will cost me for 2 years of college at UT or A&M for my daughter in a few years. There is however, the potential for her to attend an Early College HS in her district and have an associates degree along with her HS Diploma. That's 2 years I don't have to pay for! FREE!! 50 K in my pocket.......................but wait...there is a snag..............you see, even though my daughter makes straight A's, works hard, has never been a discipline issue, attends every day, and is totally focused on her academics, there is an APPLICATION process to this "Early College" stuff.....OK I say.

Rewind to last night as the district invited the "prospective" early college students and their parents up to the school for more information on the program. After one hour of listening to presentation and viewing the powerpoints, the last powerpoint mentions a "LOTTERY" for being chosen to the program..........hmmmmm I say. Well how does this lottery work I wonder?.........The presenter then starts to talk about criteria for getting your child's name in that proverbial hat. The first criteria, a simple recommendation from the building principal at the attending school.......Cool I say, that wont be an issue. So my daughter is gonna have her name in the hat along with the other applicants and they will draw names to fill the open places, completely fair I thought. But wait there is more.................at least for "other" applicants, there is more.......................... So the presenter starts rattling off terms like socio-economic status, 504 status, At-Risk status, disadvantaged sub-pops, racial profiles, past parental college, and even gender. I soon learned that should ANY of the other students my daughter is "competing" against meet any of these criteria, they get an additional "LOTTERY TICKET".....................WHOOAAAAAAA...........Wait a minute here....I have been sitting here for over an hour listening intently to this stuff and I just learned that my daughter has a better chance of winning the freakin mega ball than getting into this school!!! You talk about some serious teeth grinding going on!! I could literally feel my blood pressure skyrocketing. I would have been much better served had they had a sign on the front door saying "Middle Class Caucasian Female Students who have parents with a College Education need not apply".....................Man, talk about a slap in the face.

So there ya go, $50,000 STOLEN!!!

Lawyer up and sue. Just imagine if she was a boy. It would be even less likely.

Just have her self identify as a different race and gender...it's all the rage these days

If you�re of white privilege, have worked hard and saved money to help pay for college. Your white privileged child has been busting their butts to do good and make good grades. Guess what, you�re going to pay for college out of your back pocket.

Hard to read, it�s infuriating... my little sister called me a few months ago ranting about pre-k being for non English speaking students welfare takers and that there was no chance her kid was getting in..

I used to work in the same building where our Pre K classes were located and I KNOW what you say is true!! In no way did the demographic makeup of those classes reflect the demographics of the town I teach in.