That's what this common core crap is. It's Alice in Wonderland, except today's kids won't be able to read it, let alone understand the irony.
This is the perfect time of year to check out your nieces and nephews text books. The "college" level texts seem like 8th-9th grade level to me. I am no rocket scientist, but people who are paying 50,000 a year for a college education might want to pick up some of those text books.
I agree. Dumb and dumber.