What's the point of awarding a posthumous degree to Trayvon Martin? (insurance, election)

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by Nor Cal Wahine

By all means let's continue to devalue the merit of a real hard-earned education by frivolously rewarding non-academics (dead ones at that) with meaningless platitudes.

I did a little digging on the ole interwebs....

It's a small school (<2k students), private church affiliated school that is >84% black and 0.3% white.

So what they're doing here is getting some free advertising.

Saw an enrollment chart that had them falling from around 2k to 1600 or so students from 2009-2013.

[ATX Wahine]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I did a little digging on the ole interwebs....

It's a small school (<2k students), private church affiliated school that is >84% black and 0.3% white.

So what they're doing here is getting some free advertising.

Saw an enrollment chart that had them falling from around 2k to 1600 or so students from 2009-2013.

Mathguy's two plays ahead of the game.

[Mathguy]

I'm going to concur with several other posters here, the jabs at Trayvon and his family are pretty tacky.

If some school wants to do something like this as a gesture then so be it and if you have a low opinion of Trayvon then one would think that he's already paid the steepest price.

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

I did a little digging on the ole interwebs....

It's a small school (<2k students), private church affiliated school that is >84% black and 0.3% white.

So what they're doing here is getting some free advertising.

Saw an enrollment chart that had them falling from around 2k to 1600 or so students from 2009-2013.

now it's starting to make at least a smidgen of sense.

[zzzSnorlax]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

So what they're doing here is getting some free advertising.

Ding Ding Ding

Take some off the wall action to pander to one side and stir up the faux outrage machine of the other side for free publicity, isn't that straight out of the Trump playbook?

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by zzzSnorlax

Ding Ding Ding

Take some off the wall action to pander to one side and stir up the faux outrage machine of the other side for free publicity, isn't that straight out of the Trump playbook?

Can we please have a discussion without someone dragging Trump into it completely off-topic?

[zzzSnorlax]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Can we please have a discussion without someone dragging Trump into it completely off-topic?

It was... tactically topical

[brownbagg]

because he was always high

[Dbones]

Originally Posted by jetgraphics

Pandering for political perks is alive and well.

This in a nutshell

[whogo]

Hopefully it will be at least a quarter century before I am considered for any posthumous awards.