Will we continue to allow the watering down of education until our children are harmed forever? Whether some believe it or not, there are absolutes. Gifted classes are being cancelled in some states, while doing well in math has become a touchy area for some. How in the world are we at this point? What happened to setting goals and meeting them? What happened to working harder to achieve a goal rather than blaming someone else for our inabilities? As an English teacher (who had many wonderful English teachers along the way), I am very concerned with trying to teach students proper grammar when even pronouns have become a source of division in some places. We need to draw a line somewhere… or the next generations will be illiterate and won’t even know it.