Comment by hoseja

"novels by people like Barbara Kingsolver, Colson Whitehead, and Richard Powers."

Can you blame them? Looked them up and it's the sootiest coal, unimaginable slop. Who would want to read that?

>recent Pulitzer Prize winners, an objective standard of “serious adult novel.”

You might want to rethink your concept of objectivity bud.

>As a result they have had to make their tests easier with fewer hard problems.

Well there's your problem. If it's impossible to fail it's irrational to try.

I love teachers melting down over reaping what they've sown.