To be honest I don't think any year will ever be smarter/less retarded than the previous year.
If you think about it, we all know the education system in America was never the best, and seems to be getting worse. It seems almost every week I read about some teacher masturbating in his car to passing girls, or abusing their authority in some other way.
And it's not like the USA is alone in it's educational brain drain, the UK, or at least my school, is having problems too. Some teachers are terrible and can't teach.
So if the world is getting dumber and users are signing up at an earlier age, and new people are obviously not going to know how to behave here, then we can only expect an influx of complete idiots.
I am NOT looking forward to meeting them.