Really? Then why do we have so many stoo-pid kids 'round h're?
"Children face low bar on math, reading exams; Most fall short of US benchmarks, except in Mass." August 11, 2011|By John Hechinger, Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON - A Massachusetts child in eighth-grade math would be considered proficient with a state score equivalent to 300 on the federal exam. A child in Tennessee, which had the lowest standards, would need only 229, according to the report.
That means a Tennessee child could be considered proficient without knowing how to read a graph, while a Massachusetts student meeting that benchmark would likely be able to solve a math problem using algebra and geometry....
Damn! Those were the two subjects I goofed around in.
I suppose that's why I chose to major in history.
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