current curricular trends in California include "algebra removed from 8th grade as unfair" (or more extreme rhetoric given) and this week "equity grading for K-

current curricular trends in California include "algebra removed from 8th grade as unfair" (or more extreme rhetoric given) and this week "equity grading for K-8" where there is no D or F given in any subject. These real-life changes combined with something so arbitrary as this one as "news" really give an impression of a collapse of some kind in public education discourse.