> It is difficult to find words to describe how bad this idea is without descending into abject rudeness.
I think it's worth it in this case. You have to be an absolute moron or someone with a sinister agenda to think that decreasing the standard helps the community in any way. Especially idiotic to call this "progressive".
If I were a country trying to subtly sabotage the future growth of another country, I would target the educational systems. Not to say that is that case with what is going on here, Hanlon's razor and all that. But it does make you think.
Either way, I worry for what the future will be like with current educational policies.
(Not trying to start a flame war). There's a strain of left-wing thought (of course not ALL left-wing thinking) that accepts economic prosperity as unconnected to competence.
Something that's just there in larger or smaller amounts, like the weather.
To these people, standards is just another word for gatekeeping. In this frame of mind, something like communism actually makes sense - the prosperity is there by default, and those at the top get most of it, so why not put everyone on the same rung of society.
There's another school of thought a step closer to the centre which holds that competence exists, but has no innate component and is purely environmental. This leads to the conclusion that if you put everyone in the same environment, you'll get the same outcomes.
I think it's worth it in this case. You have to be an absolute moron or someone with a sinister agenda to think that decreasing the standard helps the community in any way. Especially idiotic to call this "progressive".