GCSE statistics say: more students taking grades between C and A, and less with grades between A and A*. Are we getting fool?

       It is that time of the year when students hold their breathe to open the magic envelopes and find out the results for their GCSE tests. This exact moment is both important for the student and for the country, as the statistics show what the new generation is capable of and whether we advance or we degrade.  Students should make their conclusions and take the decision for a big lifetime.

      According to the Guardian's  and Telegraph latest update on GCSE results things aren't going so pretty. Statistics show a decrease in the percentage of high grades in the last 4 years. In 2012, the percentage of those who got  A* was 7.3 and it dropped down to 6.6 % in 2015. Fortunately or no, the percentage of students who took a grade between C and A increased. Does this mean that students are getting weaker and the term of being "average" is spreading even more?

Another point to mention is the decrease of student number taking foreign language GCSE test. It is truly alarming as we all know that nowadays living in a cosmopolitan globalized world is practically impossible without having knowledge of foreign languages. English may be not enough in the big labor market competition.

     More and more students are doing computing narrowing the arts. I find it to be something normal as a consequence of digital development.  

     So the main question remaining to be open is: where will this new generation take us? To a new computer era where there's no need to communicate and learn foreign languages?