By Earnest Ball

When people talk about changing attitudes towards education, the usual rhetoric is that we need “tougher standards.” 

I look at the rousing numbers of graduating students who are barely qualified to make a bed or bus a table in a tourist community and wonder if standards were higher, would our children be paid more to do these exact same jobs. 

A recent article on a television station has brought up a serious question. Why have our education standards gotten so ridiculous? 

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