The great dumbing-down

A regular observes a change at work:

In high school we were told the newspaper was written for a 7-8th grade level.

Last month  in our corporate meeting we were told the new standard is 5th grade.

Next step: crayon.

‘Merica!

I don’t think it’s the Americans who are the problem, for the most part. At least, not Americans of the non-Paper variety.