I once thought that college level courses would ‘drift down’
to high school. Now, it is clear that elementary school
courses have ‘drifted up’.
Thge drifting up of elementary standards began a long time ago. The AP Courses today are taught on about the same level as an ordinary class in a good high school fifty years ago. The disconnect between higher education and the public schools is pretty general, excerpt for the influence of the public schools on the teacher colleges. Exceptional persons who still fifty years ago would have taught in high school now is found largely in community clleges or universities. In other words, there has been a brain drain from the public schools.