No Parents Left Behind

The Wombat turned me on to a news article about parents upset about commencement restrictions.

If you don't feel like reading the article, here it is in a nutshell: All students in Texas must pass the TAKS test (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) in order to graduate. If they don't, and it's not difficult, they can take it again in July and graduate in August.

A school in Fort Worth was protested by parents angry that the kids wouldn't be able to walk during commencement. IMO, if they're not graduating, they don't walk. Case closed. The test isn't hard at all. It's a test that shows you have the basic remedial knowledge from the classes you already passed.



But the best part of the article?



Wait for it...





Yeah. That cracked me up.