Lowering The Bar Punishes Our Most Outstanding Students | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Slashing honors programs and making exams easier in the name of equity and inclusion dumbs everyone down. You don't fix a broken ladder by removing the top rungs. Real equity lifts people up —it doesn't level them down. Bring back meritocracy and give all students what they need to succeed. Join Dr. Phil as he breaks down real headlines, investigates the implications of these changes, and confronts the tough questions about fairness, performance, and the future of American excellence.
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard me talk about meritocracy over and over, even name the network merit. |
| 0:05.2 | I'd like to believe America's finally getting the message. |
| 0:08.2 | Let me tell you the real story. |
| 0:10.9 | Here's some headlines. |
| 0:12.2 | Some of Silicon Valley's most prominent schools have ditched honors classes in the name of equity. |
| 0:18.8 | Talk about a race to the bottom. |
| 0:21.1 | Come on. |
| 0:22.0 | California firefighters lowered standards with DEI efforts. |
| 0:26.4 | Hey, I want a DEI firefighter when my house catches on fire. |
| 0:31.2 | Seriously? |
| 0:32.7 | UCLA Medical School faces allegations of lowered standards amid affirmative action controversy. |
| 0:39.0 | ABA faces DOJ wrath over law school diversity requirements. Across America, |
| 0:45.5 | honors classes, gone. Fitness test, easier. Bar exam, watered down. Medical school, pass fail? What? They always said, what do you call the person |
| 1:00.4 | who graduates last in their class at medical school? Doctor? Doctor? Doctor? Doctor? |
| 1:08.3 | Doctor. Doctor? Doctor. Doctor? Why did Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. |
| 1:12.3 | Why did they do that? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, in the name of equity and inclusion. |
| 1:18.3 | Group identity over individual merit. |
| 1:21.8 | We're seeing it in education. |
| 1:23.3 | Palo Alto, California, 2025. |
| 1:25.5 | Honors Biology eliminated. In the name of equity. |
| 1:29.8 | You need to go to your dictionary. |
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