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Anyone who claims that not having the most stressful, rigorous environment around for children is going to lead to a "dumbing down" needs to take a serious look at themselves, and what they want to subject their children to. Maybe CPS should take a look as well.

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CPS = child protective services?

If yes, why?

Pushing your kids to achieve and holding them to high expectations is a good thing. It's not child abuse assuming that's what you meant by CPS.

If some kids can't hang, that's life. We don't need to regulate that away.

I realize that hard work and grit and the grind are out of favor today but making schools less rigorous is foolish.

Disclaimer: son of immigrants

It's great to see rote grade-grinding (in HS, no less) mistaken for achievement, and rampant credential-grubbing seen as the path to material success & respectability. It's exactly that kind of mindset that for 300 years has made the USA the place it is today.

Disclaimer: actual American

I wasn't around for all of the last 300 years of US history as you were it seems, but I suspect the current aversion to doing work and things that seem hard would make many prior generations of Americans cry or potentially laugh at us.

I was born here in the 70s and even I see a massive attitude shift. I wonder what folks a generation ahead of me think.

Actual American. Ha ha. That's rich.

No. There's a huge difference between pushing them and creating a unhealthy environment. And this "survival of the fittest" in grade school bullshit needs to stop.

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