[FrankR]

Ahhhhh....everything old, is new again.

Frankly, I didn't know that Algebra II WASN'T required. I mean, it was in the 60's, so that just tells me how far down education has fallen.

When I shop and some young person rings up my sale, I am amazed at how lost they become if the computerized cash register doesn't tell them how much change to give back.

The schools were integrated under the guise of raising the standards to equal for minorities...but I'm afraid it's had the opposite effect. Once you lower the bar too much, the intelligent get bored. Once you give out passing grades because they student "tried" and not by what s/he accomplishes, they lose their drive to compete.

[Trailerpark Badass]

The schools were integrated under the guise of raising the standards to equal for minorities...but I'm afraid it's had the opposite effect. Once you lower the bar too much, the intelligent get bored. Once you give out passing grades because they student "tried" and not by what s/he accomplishes, they lose their drive to compete.

I always thought that the worst effect of Affirmative Action was not that it would be unfair to some individuals, or even that it would cheapen the accomplishments of those minorities who could make it on their own, but that it would lead to a more general erosion of the culture of meritocracy in this country.

It is impossible to enforce multiple sets of standards on any group that claims to be equal; it will always default to the lower standard.