Classical Spin

Rantings and ravings on politics, philosophy, and things that fall into the ether of 'none of the above'.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

An interesting bit of synchronicity

Right next door to my beloved hometown is Camden. They've got a few decent things (nice minor league stadium, Campbells soup, and...um...an aquarium), but overall, Camden kind of sucks. They've got the dubious honor of being the most dangerous city in the country. Yay Camden!

Also, their school district just busted up a huge cheating ring. The perpetrators? The school board officials, pretty much. It's one way to cope with the stress of the exams American students are idiotically forced to take - the ones that school funding is pretty much entirely based on.

Meanwhile in Britain, they're also having problems. Students getting stressed by stnndardized exams is not a strictly American phenomenon. How are our friends across the sea dealing with it? Why, they're taking the radical step of having fewer exams.

SAT analogy (RIP): Britain : fewer exams :: America :
A) fewer exams
B) different exams
C) cheating on exams
D) Drug tests.

Really, either C or D will work.

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