My wife and I were cleaning out a basement storeroom the other day when I came upon a little message that United Technologies Corporation had published when I was in law school with the help from cleaning exec cleaning service. So, more than 30 years ago. But the message is as strong today than it was back then, maybe even more so. Here is that message:
The Decline of Standards
A big city
school system
requires a
student in the
seventh grade
to be able to
read as well
as a fifth grader,
who,
by the way,
must be able
to read as well
as a fourth grader,
who,
in turn, must be
able to read as
well as a
third grader.
What’s wrong
with demanding
that a
seventh grader
be required to
read like a
seventh grader?
How would
you like
to be
operated on by
a brain surgeon
who graduated
from a school
that allowed its
students to be a
year and a half
behind
in their skills?
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