premise: A: Yeah, that's true., but, uh, I think, I mean even more than that, even, I mean if you drop out in high school you should still be able to read, you know? Which, I mean it sounds like, uh, B: Uh-huh.  Yeah. That's true. A: now I think maybe it's started changing in the past few years because, uh, they have these, uh, sort of, -tory tests you have to take before you get a diploma.
hypothesis: it's started changing in the past few years