I am pretty sure that, given the state of decline that our public schools have been in for at least 1-2 decades, fewer people are understanding much of anything

I am pretty sure that, given the state of decline that our public schools have been in for at least 1-2 decades, fewer people are understanding much of anything these days. Particularly with growing initiatives that effective hold our best back in a futile attempt to bring our worse up, with things like integrated classrooms. We seem to be regressing to a very lukewarm mean. I graduated from high school in 2007 and already recognized that the signs were there. I don't know where this country is going, but it seems like our current path flirts dangerously with ignorance and underachievement in the name of so called equality. Which, by the way, is too often conflated with equity.