well, us old people know that this is happening with society in general.
/on Can't hurt anybody's feelings by "failing them" at any aspect of their lives. Lets send them for counselling because it's not actually their fault. They have a disease.
Let's just make things a bit easier for everyone so that we don't have to upset anybody by failing them.
Let's not use red pen anymore.
Oh, you only got 6%? Well, I'll just put that down as "not yet competent" and not "moron - will never achieve objectives"
What's that? Can't read? Can't do maths? Oh well, you can still graduate with a 65% and get into NURSING where you are now in charge of people's LIVES.
/off
If you make everything *TOO* easy, there will never be any proper feeling of accomplishment. Basic philosophy will teach you that.