Monday, February 17, 2020

Where Will The Good Ones Go?

And what will we do when they're gone?

You may be wondering why they are leaving. Well, it is because they, the really good ones, are being driven away. Soon we'll see the best doctors, lawyer, engineers and other professionals will no longer be the best we could have. Instead many of those that would be best will be displaced, sacrificed to the gods of diversity.

The epicenter of this of impending disaster lies at the intersection of two fault lines: STEM and diversity. It plays out within the education industry, at schools, colleges and universities across the country. And the tool of choice is grade inflation, long viewed with disdain it has become the best, the easiest way to guarantee desired demographic profiles in programs where the preferred among us are under-represented.

Brand management and other foundational practices in the business of education prevent merely expanding programs to allow the inferior a seat beside their betters. Instead, the betters must go, vacating slots to be filled by the less capable. But where do the betters go? If we are not there already we will soon be at a place where the best and brightest must flee the United States. Shortly, the impact of systemic suppression of excellence will be felt and we will no longer be cultivating the best minds in the world. They won't leave the United States because they will not be here in the first place. And we will have abandoned first place forever.