This has everything to do with liberalism.
Sports with no scores, report cards with no grades, science classes with no labs, etc, and all for the sake of leveling the playing field so that no one feels like a loser. Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Memphis, San Francisco, and many others began their slide into oblivion long before Bush came to office. Everywhere that leftists get a foothold, deterioration and decay follow.