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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who believe in evolution why should the intellectual standard today be the same as 50 years ago or 100 years ago?

The rate of change and doubling of knowledge is mind boggling.  It makes perfect sense why Algebra may have been the endpoint a hundred years ago in high school and today this end point is reached in middle school.  It also makes perfect sense why general biology may have been a high school endpoint generations ago and today it's genetics and molecular biology.

The academic and intellectual goal posts slowly move over time ... just as the sprint times have slowly lowered over time.

There is nothing heretic about 5-year-olds reading today when they barely knew the alphabet a 100 years ago.  Think of the technological advances since that time which makes all this possible (telephones, TVs, computers, books, libraries, more time for parents and their surrogates to spend time with little children rather than hunting for food for the next meal).

If parents don't adapt with the time there children may be left behind.

In some regards, this is already slowly but surely happening with the shifting of the global sands and academic performance.

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The claim was we accelerated kids a generation or two ago and now we don't so school curricula have been dumbed down.  The response was we've accelerated the curriculum itself/everybody since then, so no, the trend isn't toward dumbing things down.   Basically, one size never fits all and when you set the bar low, you promote and when you set the bar high, you redshirt.  [/quote]

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