"It's all right to aim for mediocrity"

[essentialsaltes]

Struggling with shrinking revenues and new federal mandates that focus on improving the test scores of the lowest-achieving pupils, Mountain Grove and many other school districts across the country have turned to cutting programs for their most promising students.

Time to read Harrison Bergeron again.

Comments

[dustchick.livejournal.com]

That "greatschools" site was just a huge time-suck for me. My elementary school gets 3/10 and my re-imagined high school (now an "academy of arts and design") gets a 5/10. So scary!