Why the Ivy League is Irrelevant

For those who still harbored any doubts about traditional education failing our children, I bring you the startling revelation of Idris Leppla, a SENIOR at Barnard College

the United States Naval Academy, to which her mother recently had chauffeured her brother to enroll, “was not a school; this was the military.

Gasp…sputter…What? The United States Naval Academy is really the Navy? How could the average person have ever figured that out since they cleverly disguised the name that way?

Even worse… She tried to get the people in charge to send her baby brother home by arguing that his signature on the paperwork didn’t count because he

“signed the oath after he had been yelled at all day and his hair just been shaven off during his first day there.”

I think I might cry.

She was also shocked to learn that

leadership seminars in the course catalog were “seminars about weaponry and leading troops into combat.

Oh NO!

Can you imagine the crap this plebe is going to have to take all year because his mommy and his sister tried to get him out because they were too dumb to realize he was in the military? It doesn’t seem to matter because

The brother “ended up liking” the academy and will stay, his sister reports.

Ms. Leppla concluded,“For anyone else out there considering a career in the academy, let it be known: The U.S. Naval Academy is not an elite college; it is first and foremost a branch of the U.S. military.” This warning is unnecessary outside the Ivy League, but in it . . . well, it may be useful.

Wow, if this is an Ivy League education, then I will send my kids to community college, or perhaps a military academy where they can actually learn something. I hope Ms. Leppla is not going into rocket science or brain surgery, and perhaps someone needs to do a degree review on her before she graduates or issue a disclaimer with her diploma.

Amazing.

hat tip to Foxfier over at Head Noises for this one.