[ctdonath2]

I teach at a university part-time, and started not long ago.
I’m startled to find that fully 1/3 of my students fail _consistently_ - not because the material is hard, and not because I am a hard grader (very lenient in fact), but because they utterly fail to enough objective work.

[IbJensen]

The average high school graduate of today is practically illiterate.

This is another thing we can thank our Congress for. We needed a DOE like we needed a FEMA!