I know that there is a great deal of discussion today that is centered around the "dumbing-down" of our contemporay educational system. Maybe it is true, but I do know a couple of things that give me pause concerning that assertion.
My wife recently retired after 30 plus years of teaching Honors and Advanced Placement High School English. She even taught English in a state university in Georgia for 5 years.
Her courses were much more difficult than the ones that we had when we were in high school in the late 50s / early 60s. If I had attended one of my wife's courses, I would surely have failed it.
My daughter-in-law is a stay at home mom but has tutored high school math students for about 20 years. Her algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus classes (tutoring) are much more difficult than the equivalent courses that I had when I was a high school student.
Maybe more poor students are pushed through the system today than were when we were kids, but it seems to me that the course content is more comprehensive today than it used to be in the 50s and 60s.
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