Affirmative_Action

Affirmative Action This paper is based upon the argument present in issue 19 in the Taking Sides book. The book asks if affirmative action programs in public school admissions policies violate the fourteenth amendment. Not only will I prove how affirmative action policies violate the fourteenth amendment, I will illustrate how they hamper our academic community as a whole by allowing, and quite possibly condoning underachievement. Affirmative action was and still is to some degree a government instituted policy. It became most noticeable in the 1960’s civil rights movement that was designed to break down the barriers of segregation and exclusion against people of minority status. People of minority status encompassed a broad spectrum of individuals. During the 1960’s when affirmative action policies were flourishing, the minorities were essentially those who were not white, male, and middle or upper class, but primarily those who were black. Those policies worked to desegregate and include minorities at a level that was inconceivable before the civil rights movement. But today there is a worth and necessity of the affirmative action policy to be reconsidered so that it provides a 21st century view on racial and ethnical related school, affirmative, action, students, black, wisconsin, public, policies, academic, united, states, society, schools, racial, laws, graders, discrimination, against, advanced, 10th, white, uw-madison, university, protection, one, high, equal, court, admissions, two, shall, race, programs, person, people