Only 44.52 percent of Thurgood Marshall students who took that exam for the first time passed it—a rate that was by far the lowest among Texas’ 10 law schools and much lower than the pass rate that comparable groups of Thurgood Marshall students obtained in recent years.And he should be. Normally, the healthy reaction to "poaching" is simply to admit more students. Unfortunately, the bar examiners have to cooperate by not making the examination too tough for the lowest rung of would-be lawyers to pass. When the bar examiners are unduly harsh on tomorrow's white shoe tap-dancers, it makes it incredibly difficult for schools like Thurgood Marshall to profit as much as their namesakes would want. What are they supposed to do, hire ringers or else go the way of Valpo?
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[T]he law school has launched an investigation to figure out why the pass rate was so low.
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It is too early to speculate why the pass rate was lower than normal, he said, but he is concerned that current students may transfer to other schools after seeing the low pass rate for the most recent bar exam. [The Superdean] said other schools do reach in and “poach” the school’s best students, despite Thurgood Marshall’s desire to keep them.
But, hey, let's have us an investigation as to why one of the worst(-rated!) law schools in Texas can't cut it anymore on some elitist, unwinnable contest because some grand poobahs in Austin think you need a fucking Fields Medal to make millions divorcing unhappy trailer park denizens.
I mean, for fuck's sake, the school's incoming median LSAT is 143 with a median GPA of 3.02 - and we're talking about astrophysicists at Cal Tech. What the hell do you expect? You're going to investigate that, really? This is like the New York Times food critic suddenly running Rizzo's Pubic Hair Sub Shop and calling for an investigation as to why the ham doesn't quite taste like the prime jamon iberico that law deans nibble off the nude bodies of "performance artists."
"It's too early to speculate..." Okay, Deano... let's do a full investigation. Put together a panel. Get Deborah Merritt involved. Put Seth Abramson on the case. Start issuing subpoenas. Hold some hearings. Consult the experts. Write an 85-page white paper with citations aplenty.
Doesn't change the fact that the bar needs to accommodate the school's disability of not being to find better applicants. If that's not an ADA violation, it damn well should be, and we need tons and tons of lawyers, especially the dumb ones, to prove it.
—— [T]he law school has launched an investigation to figure out why the pass rate was so low.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, that question requires a thoroughgoing investigation. The reason couldn't possibly have anything to do with the shittiness of the students. After all, students who score in the 10th or 20th percentile on the LSAT are obviously prime candidates for the legal profession.
—— [The Superdean] said other schools do reach in and “poach” the school’s best students, despite Thurgood Marshall’s desire to keep them.
And of course what matters is the school's desire to keep those students. Never mind what the students want to do. They should be stuck at Tex-ass Southern Über-toilet for the full three years, if not longer.
The "best students" at Texas Southern might climb as high as a Touro. Something tells me that they're not quite competitive for Harvard and Yale.
By the way, why did Thurgood Marshall allow his name to be associated with this hell-pit?
We'll never get rid of the Tex-ass Southern law school shithole, and we all know why. I'm not a lawyer, but as a taxpayer and resident of Texas, I am incensed that presumably, taxpayer funding is supporting this bullshit. Graduates of these toilets are causing problems, because a few--by sheer luck or repeated trials--pass the bar and get to practice law. They go back home to Tyler or Dallas or wherever and scrounge for whatever criminal defense or personal injury action they can get, clogging up the system and providing sorry-ass representation for their foolish clients. Some of these morons even run for office and win, populating the judicial benches, county commissioners courts, and even the legislature, so our governments are populated with imbeciles.
ReplyDeleteThe only solution is for some way, some how to cut of the flow of sweet federally guaranteed student loan money to these scamsters. Fuck 'em all and the horses they rode in on.
Keep on fightin', y'all!
If the government cut off the flow of student loan dollars to all the colleges, law schools, etc. tomorrow, most of them would go out of business. So, respectfully, that's not gonna happen. What is happening is the de-valuation of the US dollar. I personally know a guy who borrowed well over 100K for college, "worked" for a year, and then intentionally decided to take a 3 year tax-payer funded vacation in sunny Florida. He called it Law School. He didn't even bother to sit for the Bar Exam the summer he graduated from law school, and proceeded to move back home, take that state's Bar Exam, and fail it twice. He is now a lawyer, will NEVER repay the debt, and financed a new car for himself. . .because the car note is secured by the car, whereas the student debt is, for most intents and purposes, a fiction.
DeleteHey! This isn't just one of the worst rated law schools in Texas-it's one of the worst rated law schools in the entire USA! Let's give credit where credit is due.
ReplyDeleteThe median LSAT score at Texas Southern is 143. Only one other accredited law school in the US has a lower LSAT score: Cooley, at 142.
DeleteTexas Southern's LSAT score at the 25th percentile is 141. Only one is lower: again, Cooley, at 139. Only two are tied with Texas Southern.
Yet enrollment at Texas Southern went up by 13% this year.