You hit on a critical point.
Since at least 2003, according to a book I read recently, 80% of all high school graduates in the US are unable to read beyond the 4th grade level. That applies to math even more.
When I was just out of high school, 74 or so, the US ranmed 7th worldwide in education. 20 tears later, we were at #17. Sometime toward the end of president stompy feet we had drooped to # 28, around 2014 or so.
It is _NOT_ getting better. This is why so many are able to so easily come here from especially India, better educated and will work cheap...
And by the way this article mentioned Immigration act of 1990... Proposed by our old buddy Ted Kennedy and signed by Grandpa Bush himself as a last act of defiance I guess, November 1990...that’s who got us here, is anyone surprised?
That is because of that dumbing down and lowering of scholastic standards.
Two reasons for that:
1) The PC culture, where everybody gets a price for participating. So failing a student is a no-no and grading ‘on the curve’ has become common place. They are supposed to pass you if you have attendance, and even when not so.
2) The racist liberal culture that deems typical classes too ‘marginalizing’ for ‘colored’ people. It gets so bad that some professors deem math ‘racist’ and ‘imposed by white supremacists’ What????.
Don’t they realize that assuming that minority students are not able to master the subjects being taught is extremely racist and offensive?. I grew up in Venezuela (back in the 70’s and 80’s) and I remember coming to the USA for college and realizing how far back the American students were compared to us. All of my friends were minorities and were much, much better at math, science etc. than the American freshman students. (Shame what happened to Venezuela, the same will happen here if the BLM and the socialist left wins)
All these liberal racists are doing is keeping the minority populations down, diminishing their chance of success and condemning them to life of poverty and dependence.
I am beginning think some of those liberal jerks know that and do it on purpose.