IDS 1: The Promoting Fairness and Equality in Education Act (Debating)

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[Maxwell]

I like the theory of making college more open to those who are not as able to afford it, but some of the provisions are questionable to me, particularly a quota system on income and forcing those requirements on private colleges. This will be something we can work on.

[Maxwell]

Quota systems have been ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court countless times, so this bill wouldn't even be constitutional.

I am all for diversity, but this isn't the way to go about it.

Also, the last part is something I can't support. I'm not going to kill college athletics. A lot of those scholarships are supported by boosters anyway, not state funds.

The colleges should be spending that money on merit-based academic scholarships.  They are supposed to be academic institutions and have no business giving out scholarships to people just because they happen to be good at sports.  If the outcome of fixing this problem is the death of college athletics and the constant scandals that go with it, so be it.  I certainly won't shed a tear.  Colleges should not be giving out scholarship money to people just because they can play football.

As for quotas, I'm pretty sure part of that Civil Rights bill the Senate passed also established quotas (although I could be mistaken).  If so, I don't see why that is constitutional and this isn't.  In any event, as I told Speaker Maxwell, I'm happy to hear alturnatives to quotas (an imperfect solution, to be sure), but so far I haven't seen any alturnative proposals for how to deal with this problem.

The Civil Rights Bill is obviously terrible, but sure, I'll try to come up with something before my term is out.

[Maxwell]

One idea I had was encouraging growth of poorer families in schools through some level of regional subsidization of those students.

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AFter much delay, I have an amendment.

Await any objections.

[Maxwell]

They're prohibited from giving out sports scholarships?

I can't support a bill that does that.

oh yes, that too.