Letters: Stop watering down school standards

When Dabo Swinney and Will Muschamp joined the chorus of state high school coaches in favor of a new high school grading scale, I knew there had to be a self-serving reason.

An artificially higher GPA allows high school athletes being recruited by Clemson, USC or whomever to meet NCAA qualifying standards.

With grade inflation already rampant, the continuing failure of too many public schools to educate too many students in basic skills and serious academic subjects should not be all that surprising.

To state Education Superintendent Molly Spearman and other liberal PC types, this is progress, right up there with sensitivity training and excusing student misbehavior. What’s next? No attendance requirements? High school diplomas issued along with birth certificates as an entitlement? Don’t be surprised what the near future holds in our state educational system.

This story was originally published April 16, 2016 at 12:32 PM with the headline "Letters: Stop watering down school standards."