Fox News host Laura Ingraham explains how woke schools are fighting against merit to promote diversity and equity and what this means for children on "The Ingraham Angle."

LAURA INGRAHAM: It's not just laziness or sloppiness at play here. In our schools, in our corporate boardrooms and in politics, what's best about America is slowly being erased, replaced by a slavish devotion to equity and diversity. These concepts are being relentlessly promoted in woke curricula from kindergarten on up. In high school, we see how evil this really is. Consider what just happened in Northern Virginia, where school administrators purposely withheld from students applying to college the fact that they had, in fact, been recognized as National Merit Scholars. All because the administrators didn't want to hurt the feelings of the students who didn't get the scholarships. What does this mean? Well, this means that the students were punished by woke schools because the students excelled. 

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Instead of keeping the bar high to encourage hard work by students across the country, schools dropped standards, dropped standardized test requirements. And to this day, those tests remain optional for many colleges. Now, while this helped increase the pool of diverse applicants, it does nothing to change the fact that we have generations of minority students who've been cheated by liberal educators. Last October, a report revealed the shocking state of things for Illinois third-graders. Yet measuring objective merit, as they did in that study itself, the left argues, is racist — ridiculous. George W. Bush was right when he called this the soft bigotry of low expectations. 

Ran Carthon was introduced as the Tennessee Titans' general manager on Friday, a life goal at least 20 years in the making.

Carthon was a running back at the University of Florida in the spring of 2003 when he told his girlfriend (now his wife) he wanted to be a general manager of an NFL team eventually.

Well, those dreams were a little too far-fetched for her, says Carthon.

In fact, his career goals alone almost cost the couple their entire relationship.

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"She later told me she almost stopped dating me because she never met somebody that lived in La La Land," Carthon recalled to reporters.

"But honey, today that dream comes true, and we're realizing that world that we've put in."

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Carthon was undrafted out of Florida and played nine NFL games with the Indianapolis Colts, but his front office career has been very successful.

Just two years after hanging up the cleats, he joined the Atlanta Falcons as a pro scout. He then went to the St. Louis Rams to be their director of player personnel for five years. He joined the San Francisco 49ers in 2017 and was most recently their director of player personnel.

The Titans were in the playoff hunt for much of the season in 2022. In fact, they started 7-3 and were well on their way to their fourth consecutive playoff appearance. 

However, they lost seven games in a row to end the season and were knocked out of contention in Week 18 when they Jacksonville Jaguars won the AFC South over them.