The American education establishment is currently having a collective meltdown.If you watch the headlines closely, you can see the panic setting in across the country.This is the unmistakable sound of a broken progressive machine collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance.
The radical left has engineered our educational system to prioritize ideological compliance over human formation.Reality is finally catching up with them, and the collapse is starting where the crusade began.
The war on merit.A few years ago, the "prestigious" University of California system proudly eliminated standardized testing.They sacrificed the SAT and ACT on the altar of "equity," claiming that objective academic standards were inherently discriminatory.
The administrators confidently claimed that removing the tests would level the playing field.They promised it would open the doors of elite academia to students with fewer resources, reshaping the demographic makeup of the incoming students.CONFIDENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION SLIPS AFTER BRIEF RECOVERY, GALLUP POLL FINDSThis decision turned out to be a complete disaster.The results are in and the failure is so undeniable that even the New York Times admitted that dropping test requirements was a terrible mistake.
These universities are discovering the hard way that when you declare war on merit, you reward mediocrity.You rob intelligent, hard-working students of the ability to prove their worth, all to satisfy a progressive political checklist.Standardized tests stood for generations as an equalizer.
They were a reliable tool for intelligent hard-working students from a failing public school could use to prove they were just as capable as a wealthy student from a private prep school.A high SAT score cut through the noise of privilege.
By eliminating that objective metric, the University of California did not fix inequality.They worsened the issue.
Admissions offices were forced to rely on highly subjective metrics like inflated GPAs...