How Grade Inflation Flies Under the Radar

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When grade inflation happens, the learning debt doesn’t come due until students graduate – at which point it’s somebody else’s problem and it’s easier to just change the narrative.

Kid gets smacked in the face by first-semester calculus at college and no longer wants to major in a quantitative field? It hurts too much to accept the truth that life could have been different if they mastered the prereqs in high school. So instead it’s “ah well, math is hard and I guess I’m not cut out for it.” Or even “math class is unfair.”

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