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The Dumbing Down Of America Is Poised To Accelerate Published: February 9, 2021 The Dumbing Down of America Andrey Kessler at the Wall Street Journal accurately notes Mediocrity Is Now Mandatory In January the College Board announced it would eliminate the essay portion of the SAT, as well as all of the separate SAT subject tests. Their stated purpose was “reducing and simplifying demands on students.” Such a burden. When the University of California system did away with racial preferences in 1996, it moved to holistic admissions. Grades are only a suggestion and SAT scores are biased, supposedly. Virtually all universities and now many companies have D&I departments, for diversity and inclusion. Sounds worthy. But as far as I can tell, the No. 1 job of a D&I department is to hire more people into the D&I department. No one ever mentions excellence. ....