Watering down the curriculum and handicapping kids for the rest of their lives so that they are incapable of learning -- that is a separate part of the Bush plan.

We have a tiered education system where a majority are taught watered down useless trivia combined with rudimentary skills; a smaller number are taught powerpoint presentations (in middle school, here) and how to write well enough to function as middle management; another group are trained to be technocrats; and a rigorous classical education is reserved for elite boarding schools.

The rulers of the world like it that way.