The Department of Education has been dumbing down America's education system, to be more inclusive, since 1979. Prior to that, a GED was plenty for most labor jobs, a high school diploma was much more challenging to achieve, and we had one of the best education systems in the world. Now, everyone gets a high school diploma and goes to college, and we rank something like 24th in the world in science, 38th in math, and dead last, as far as I can tell, in history, because we're repeating a proven failure system of government. How "progressive." 

 The thought of put my child in public or private school is horrifying.