This is nothing new. Is anyone listening” https://www.the74million.org/article/https-www-the74million-org-article-schooling-learning-lax-standards-hurt-low-income-students/ Since the mad scramble to hide the incompetence of public education beginning in 2001, students were seen as inconvenient aspects of educators’ employment and accountability so this idea of grade inflation began to take hold. The results are seen at Junior Colleges and 4-year colleges by the number of students retaking high school courses or just discouragingly dropping out because their High School Graduation Diploma was a lie. This is clarified in “The Testing Charade” (2017) by Daniel Koretz and “Dumbing Us Down” (1995) by John Taylor Gatto. Rob Wood
