Jerry Pournelle's response on Algebra and High School graduation

I said yesterday I would let you know if Dr. Pournelle responded, here it is:

For the right side of the bell curve it's a reasonable requirement. For the
left side, it's sheer hell and a guarantee that we will have a huge dropout
rate.

This is not Lake Wobegon

Simple and succinct.

Actually I have to admit I was surprised that he responded; I have written to a lot of people much lower on the social importance food chain and never heard anything back.

Embarrassingly I misspelled school in the title. Corrected now.