School districts across the country are adopting weakened grading scales to help more underachieving students go home with a grade they don’t deserve. The 93/85/77/70 grading scale (93 is an A-, a 70 a D-) is being abandoned for a more lenient scale that gives students more room to underachieve. The lenient 90/80/70/60 scale gives students an A at a meager 90 percent average; this system also won’t fail the student until their average grades have fallen to a putrid 59 percent This curve gives more students a chance to accept insurance discounts, scholarships, and grants for their “good grades.” These weakened educational standards allow dumbed-down students to go to college so they can more easily take up careers in any field. Many of these students go on to become teachers, where they will perpetuate the weakening of educational standards and civic duty. This inevitably creates a cycle of stupidity, where dumbed-down students become teachers, to further perpetuate a cycle of stupidity and weakened standards on the next generations.