The "slippery slope" in my neck of the woods was the elimination of Grade 13. Yes, we had one of those here in Ontario, Canada -- and it was a university (as op

The "slippery slope" in my neck of the woods was the elimination of Grade 13. Yes, we had one of those here in Ontario, Canada -- and it was a university (as opposed to college) prep year. I never finished it (I was too cool for school at the time, and Grade 13 was just a brief return visit after a period of serious professional "truancy"), but my course of studies consisted of three sciences (physics, biology and chemistry) and four maths ("abstract algebra", "functions, relations and matrices", calculus, and statistics). Admittedly, first-year university studies in the province were hell for people coming from outside of Ontario (or for anybody who loaded their schedules with courses that didn't fit their university program).