My agenda is simply this: The forces of "progressivism" are ANTI-MERIT, and always have been, but a compliant Media and the mediocre Academic hierarchy always cloak their fight against meritocracy in social memes and phony compassion for demographic groups that persistently fail when exposed to real, objective competition.
I chuckle to recall the time when I was in the Federal orbit many years ago. "Professional and Administrative" hiring was largely influenced by a competitive test called the "PACE" test, which tested general knowledge and problem-solving ability. For entry level hires the HR types would consider both academic credentials and the PACE score, to identify (a) the dullards who managed to get a college degree (which was common during Vietnam), and (b) those who had no degree but were capable of doing administrative work at a "management" level.
Of course, Blacks and Hispanics were "left behind" when the PACE exam came in, so President Carter killed the test and ordered the Office of Personnel Management to devise a test that would result in "whites" and the targeted ethnic groups passing the test in roughly equal numbers. This being an impossible task, no test was ever devised, and the result was a bizarre system where college GPA was compared broadly, with a 3.5 from Bob's Community College and a 3.5 from Harvard given equal weight.
With this philosophy holding sway in Academe, the chance to simply forgo SAT/ACT (as a result of the plague) is a gift to the Social Justice Warriors who control the admissions offices, and the results are entirely predictable. Indeed, one can foresee a movement next year to ignore these exams entirely, as being superfluous.
Assuming, of course, that "college" goes back to "normal" after the plague subsides. No guarantees on that.
