It appears that in the artsy crafty courses in most of our elite institutions academic rigor has been abandoned as a despised remnant of the unenlightened age before Critical Thinking. All students at Harvard are above average, all get the trophy, all get the pass to the good life.
A mom in Georgia was sentenced to 3 years probation and ordered to pay $30,000 to a school district when she cut corners trying to get her kid out of a cess pool school district and into one with better schools. Single, black mom raising two kids.
Should these people get anything less for doing much worse?