Giving fake As in fake classes is not so much misguided compassion as an admission that the subject taught had no appreciable value

I get what DC McCallister is saying here when she rights of the UNC fake class and grade scandal:

Academic misconduct in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies (AFAM) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill doesn’t just expose how an elite institution with a pristine reputation can give way to greed and put athletic success above the educational needs of student athletes. At the core of this scandal is the failure of liberal compassion in which struggling students are treated with disrespect under the guise of sympathy by giving them academic freebies instead of challenging them to succeed on their own merit.

According to a comprehensive report by independent investigator Kenneth Wainstein, AFAM Department Chair Julius Nyang’oro and his administrative assistant, Deborah Crowder, ran a “shadow curriculum” between 1993 and 2011 that provided thousands of students and student athletes with “academically flawed instruction” through illegitimate “paper classes.”

But if the miscreants were compassionate and they believed that the material was esential to their student's success then they would have made sure they learned it.  Just like you won't find too many people handing out Scuba Diving certifications to people who couldn't pass or even didn't take the class.  No, the reason these leftists were happy to hand out fake grades was because they knew that the material taught in them was useless and believed that only the credential that was derived from them had value.

A more cogent testament as to the true value of much of today's higher education could not be given.  I applaud these corrupt truth tellers for inadvertently explaining why many of us shouldn't waste our money and why all racial and gender "Studies" programs should be shut down and their 'faculty' fired. 

There have been bigger frauds but none more pathetic.