npr: Now that the Supreme Court is considering the issue of...

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Now that the Supreme Court is considering the issue of affirmative action in college admissions, all kinds of groups are weighing in. But we’re not hearing from the people who will be most affected by the court’s decision: college-bound teenagers.

The teenagers we talked to attend two suburban high schools near Washington, D.C.: One is majority black and the other school has a mix of Latino, black, white and Asian students. The 16- and 17-year-olds knew little or nothing about the case that’s before the Supreme Court — Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin — or about Abigail Fisher, the young woman who sued the university back in 2008. Fisher was denied admission because, she argued, the university wanted more minorities and she was white.

So here’s the question we asked the students:

Should College Admissions Decisions Take Race Into Consideration?

What Is Fair? High School Students Talk About Affirmative Action

Photo: Elissa Nadworny/NPR

Affirmative action is absolutely not fair.
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But that’s the point. Pure meritocracy is the most fair way to choose the best people, but our own biases cause a radical disparity in the diversity of our choices. So we can’t operate on pure meritocracy.

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