03-06-2011, 07:12 AM
High School certainly is. My GF's oldest is in honors stuff as a 9th grader. They stuff they are teaching him is what I learned in middle school in honors classes back in the late 70s. Her youngest as a 7th grader, can't rattle off the months of the year in order, and HE is in middle school honors classes. How can you explain that other than dumbing down the curriculum so more can pass the first time, rather than forcing the kids to go over it again until they learn what is required?