education
ever notice that one side effect of no child left behind is no child gets ahead? sigh. when mediocre is good enough some choose the easy way instead doing their best. so what it means to be average slowly but steadily declines. which makes it easier to get your truly below average students up to the bar. but it also robs society of some its best and brightest. nations aren't judged by what their lower performers accomplish. they're judged by what their greatest achieve.