Educational redlining and the college admissions scandal

The FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues college admissions cheating and bribery scandal has shined a glaring light on the power of money and privilege in ensuring that families with means can enter America’s finest halls of knowledge — even through “side doors” most never knew existed.
But the fraudulent actions exposed in OVB have brought attention to the entire inequitable process of American education — a system literally based on a feudalistic land model whereby