This is what American public schools asks of children.
http://weknowmemes.com/2011/10/the-educational-system-comic/
Not being a conspiracy theorist, I cannot say, categorically, that there is a plot afoot to keep the general populace in widespread ignorance by dumbing down the curriculum.
Neither can I say, with any real evidence, that current methodology and practice within establishments (from primary through to secondary and beyond) is designed to ensure minimum love of education and a destruction of motivation within students and teachers.
What I can say, with more than a measure of truth, is that all of the above appears to be happening.
And it worries the hell out of me.
Children either unable to read or spell or their capacity to do so measuring well below their intellectual abilities.
Children bored or turned off of education from the earliest years.
Students lacking the desire to embrace education for the sheer joy of it.
There is much more. And there are many more worrying…
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idealisticrebel 
FYI: I was at more than one meeting that instructed instructional staff to make the courses easier or give them ways to raise their grades or dumb it down… etc. I can say its a fact not just wher I was working but even at large universities
Wow, you know they have been dumbing down the average American. The rest of us demand more answers. Hugs, Barbara