[fwdude]

It’s a never-ending dumbing down process. Everyone suffers.

Here at my state college in Texas in the 90’s, I encountered numerous students in my tutoring role, mostly “people of color,” who could not manage the simplest math or English. I was trying to tutor them in algebra when they didn’t even know SIMPLE ARITHMETIC!!

How they made it out of High School ought to be a crime.

[HamiltonJay]

The cancer that is “lower expectations”..

There is little doubt that inner city kids often are dealt some pretty damn bad hands in life, but letting them coast on lower expectations doesn’t help them in life at all.

Hey look, I graduated.. but I read at a 4th grade level and can’t do 6th grade level math.. because the system just accepts lower expectations... how is that helping them?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This was in our local NextDoor app yesterday.

Anyone want there lawn mower has to be a big yard I’m 15 trying to make money mowing and weed whacking lawns I have a riding lawn mower price is per yard and how big thanks and Hayden area

I did not make that up. In fact, no matter how hard I tried, I could not write that. Here in North Idaho, it's a 100% certainty that a white high school kid wrote it.

[Aevery_Freeman]

And it is not just POC's. We are failing all students due to lowered standards.

Ask most Zoomers a simple multiplication question (7 X 8 = ?) and watch them grab their phone.

[2001convSVT]

“How they made it out of High School ought to be a crime”

I blame it on the “no child left behind” program. That program is responsible, we have “H” Bush to thanks!