[A_perfect_lady]

for most students, the first two years of college are now spent learning things that used to be required to be learned in high school and were prerequisities for college.

Yep. Because if we high school teachers actually were allowed to hold them to the standards we pretend to, and grade them accordingly, 65-70% would not graduate. They can barely read, barely write, and have no interest in homework, or effort.

[HonorInPa]

I agree. I know lots of teachers - both of my daughters, in fact - who are frustrated with social advancement to keep kids with their age group, spending two months teaching to maximize state test scores, and the rest of the time acting as both parent and social worker.