Why are we lowering our standards?

I WAS very disappointed to read in the media that universities are going to ignore bad spelling and grammar. All they are interested in is if the message gets across.

How would they have managed years ago when children (like my mother) had to matriculate? You took eight subjects, but if you failed maths, you failed the lot!

Why has it become the norm to lower standards and aspirations?

What is the point of striving to do your best if it is no longer worth it? Where has pride in work gone?

I certainly wouldn’t employ someone who cannot be bothered.

Even now, I keep reading sentences that don’t use the us/ we rule (us humans/we humans, for example), worryingly in articles written by established reporters.

Also the misuse of ‘me and Bob/Bob and I’ is really exasperating.

People are, like, not even, like, stringing sentences together, like; T’s, G’s and H’s have already disappeared from the alphabet; If you say good morning to people you are lucky to get a grunt back. I am surprised the universities have not suggested just using emoji icons.

Is this just another cop-out so that the more sensitive of the population aren’t upset? For goodness sake raise standards and aspirations before we all just give up living. We need to stretch our limits and boundaries, not shrink them.

My father grew up in a little village with 14 pupils in the school, all of different ages. He not only made sure his standards were good, but