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Of picked minor sports or sports which don't get a lot of attention. he want picking the basketball team at these schools or the football team. it was the sailing team, the crew team, which don't get the kind of, you know, eyes on from many in the administration. >> well, they're happy to charge $50,000 a year or $60,000 a year's tuition for each student. so i think they should be looking more carefully about who they're admitting. >> but i disagree that the only victim here is felicity huffman's kid. i think the victims are all the kids who are not getting places. this is a zero-sum game. whe...

Legitimate in any way. somebody saying they want to be on the crew and they had never rode a boat. >> what's interesting because they intentionally it seems like, singer intentionally picked minor sports or sports which don't get a lot of attention. he wasn't pickk the basketball team or the football team. it was the sailing team, the crew team, which don't get the kind of, you know, eyes on from the administration. >> they are happy to charge $50,000 a year, $60,000 a year tuition for each student. i think they should be looking more carefully. >> i disagree the only victim is felicity huffma...

Earned a place into the best schools and put kids who couldn't pass the test in, hurting both sets of kids, by the way. so i'm really concerned about this. instead of getting back to basics, let's teach our kids the toughest curriculum out there because the global economy on the global world is gaining on america. let's not try make it up with this kind of nonsense. >> shannon: one of the things i thought was interesting, before the old way of doing this, the information what to admissions counselors and they were the only ones who could see it. so you wouldn't even know what was in your own s...

Objective. nobody is saying it is culturally biased, that from a democrat. >> obviously it is when we have the majority of the kids in these schools are asian, in actuality the majority of kids in public schools are latino and african-american. i'm not d about those 20% of kids that previously got into the schools but now are not going into. those kids are going to be fine. i'm concerned about the greater good. when those schools are diverse, so many studies show in schools and the workplace and the communities when there is diversity that is good for all of us. this is keeping up with the tim...

Facebook pages. what do we have, katherine? >> young people don't respect the first amendment. of course not, the internet's unregulated and abusive free speech turned public opinion. patrick, that's scary. i don't know if they don't respect it or if they're not aware of it. as i quoted out to the professor, there were multiple civics requirements that i had to fulfill in my k-12 public education. i don't think that's the case. and maybe all this standardized testing in math and science just a thought of mine, doesn't leave time for that in the curriculum. we keep hearing if only the u.s. ha...