The TV stars and coaches charged in college bribery scheme must not have realized that the political correctness of cultural Marxism has already trashed our colleges

That trashing of our colleges by cultural Marxists has been especially true of the Ivy League schools, so getting into these trashed schools has little or nothing to do with becoming educated.

The classic position on education was to make minds and character first and then careers could follow. That has been anarchically thrown out the school windows, now we educate for "career readiness."

I suppose graduating from an Ivy League school still impresses some employers, or excites people who care only about the illusion of status. And science departments seem less brainwashed by political correctness than the totally trashed humanities.

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" wrote Yeats way back in 1919, and that describes our educational system. Who or what trashed our schools? Mainly it was trashing the merit system. Our educational policies are now shaped by choosing people not based on their merits but rather by their race, or their political views, or connections to the colleges.

The Lefties established the abomination of affirmative action in college admissions and in job applications which created reverse discrimination against white males and Asians. As Richard Sanders has said, artificially elevating minority students into schools or jobs they otherwise would not be merited for, discourages them and tends to engender failure and high dropout rates for these students. Making up for past real discrimination isn't done with more discrimination, resentment, and revenge.

It might be good if the whole educational system was trashed along with fools and liars who administrate it. Then we could return to schools based on real merit...Maybe that will happen later when we separate into more equitable ethnostates.