>They are being dumbed down by design in order to accommodate the socialist agenda currently in vogue!<
And the schools have been doing in by increasing increments for the past thirty some odd years or more!
For heaven’s sake, everyone, CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTERS TODAY AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THE BAILOUT!!!!!
FAR longer than that I'm afraid. I began in earnest in the 1920's in this country but that was just THIS country.
Great Britain is another story.