We're not supposed to get political on these threads,but this has been a an issue for a very long time.
My music related vignette is as follows:
6th grade report card day ,one of the students in my class gets ill.
I'm a patrol boy at the time ,so teacher asks me to walk him home.
He shows me his report card (basically all failing grades for most of the school year).
We move on to middle school ,and from there I don't see much of him around.
Cut to my sop****re year and I'm playing Pomp and Circumstance at SR commencement.
I see that student walking down the aisle graduating 2 years ahead of me.
A little thing called social promotion dictated that he graduate with his own age group regardless of academic performance.
There was a point in time where a high school diploma was worth something,but that has long since gone by the wayside.
And we're talking about the Leave it to Beaver era.
As for spell editors ,maybe they're broken.
Seems I can't use the term sop****re (sophom0re) without being censored.