There was a meeting of Florida's Scholastic Press Association in Tampa this weekend. It was pretty lame, though....
With the FCAT and No Child Left Behind, schools are heavily pressured to double their efforts as a school, and improve their scores and ratings. This seems like a good idea, but there are a few idiotic things about it....
When in the 8th grade at Sanford Middle School, I was already a fluent typist and had taken a few classes to prove it. In high-school, I wanted straight-away to start in web-design classes, but was required to take Business Systems Technology (where you learn Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). I opted to take an exemption exam to waive that requirement, and start in Web Design I....
Anyone ever felt too grown up?...