[monkeyshine]

This has been a never ending cycle. The kids aren’t learning, so they changed the meaning of proficiency decades ago. Proficient means (in many districts) that you can read or do math at or better than 2 grades below your own. If you’re in 8th grade if you can do 6th grade math you’re proficient.

Now, fast forward two decades, that 8th grader who could only do 6th grade math becomes a math teacher who - surprise - in not proficient in math.

[hanamizu]

This has been a never ending cycle.

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If anyone doubts the long-term dumbing down of expectations in American public schools, download a copy of McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader—a book aimed at teaching 6th graders in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16751

How many high school grads (not Baltimore HS grads!) can comprehend its lessons?