If this is true then previous graduates must have been completely illiterate.
I've been attending college part-time for several years and have been continuously amazed at how many of my fellow students produce absolute gibberish in even the most basic written work.
Consider the one who concluded a critique of some of my work with the sentence, "you should listening to me because I get all A's and know what I talk about this and am a very good writer."
She was in her last semester.
It is indeed sad. I realized the other day that your average European teenager probably speaks and writes better English than your average New Orleans (where I live) public high schooler.
That is so discouraging.