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Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

Ep. 365 — Who Suffers When Standards Drop?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

PragerU

Self-improvement, Education, How To

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) now allows extra time for test-takers with mental and psychological disabilities. Is this compassionate, or could lowering the bar in fields like medicine and law lead to the dumbing down of America’s doctors and lawyers? As well-intentioned but misguided affirmative action policies shift professional requirements, who ultimately suffers? Plus, Dennis answers your questions about risking grades to stand up for truth, Jesus, Halloween, and preferred pronouns. The Fireside Chat is sponsored by members of PragerUnited—our monthly giving club. Support the Fireside Chat and join today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, hello everybody. I'm Dennis Prager. This is Fire Sci chat number 365.

0:06.0

It's only a coincidence that that's how many days there are in the year except the leap year which is

0:10.8

366, but I just thought I'd noted. I have a really interesting

0:19.9

subject for my opening comments then of course I go to your questions.

0:25.0

And it is completely a thank you to Julie Hartman with whom I do the Dennis and Julie

0:31.5

podcast every week for the Salem News Channel, you would enjoy it.

0:39.0

There's no question.

0:40.0

It's amazing, she's 25 and we have such a rapport. It's it's worthy of its own

0:48.5

commentary. What does age mean? It's a very interesting question.

0:55.0

But I'm not going to get into that now.

0:57.0

Anyway, she raised this topic and we discussed it for over an hour.

1:01.0

But I'll give about five to ten minutes.

1:05.6

So I just learned.

1:07.5

I mean, I had vague notions of this,

1:10.6

but I just learned.

1:12.0

She just took or she's preparing to take L-Sats, that's law school exams.

1:19.2

To get into law school, I guess you have to take L-SAT.

1:22.4

Do you guys know this anything about that? Is that right? I'm like there isn't there M-cats for medical school? Yeah. So the she's taking an online tutoring class,

1:37.0

a Zoom class,

1:39.0

and the Zoom facilitator said in passing that he wanted them to know that if they have any,

1:50.0

what is the word? Disabilities, yeah. Any mental, psychological disability, they can have extra time on the exam.

2:05.0

This sounds to most Americans as entirely right because it's compassionate and not only compassionate, it's compassionate,

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