Primrose Road

During the summer, I teach SAT prep for the high school kiddies. When I told a class that the SAT is a reasoning test and that content-wise, there's nothing above Sequential I Math, they laughed and told me that there has been no such thing as Sequential I for years. There are now two Regents exams -- Math A and Math B -- in place of the three that I had to take when I was in high school.

What this means: the required terms of math / required terms of gym ratio in most New York State high schools is now more ridiculous than ever.

To this day, I live in fear that someday the Dept. of Ed is going to come after me for the term of high school gym I'm "technically" missing and threaten to revoke all of my degrees unless I go back and pass one gym class. Of course, I'm nearly 100% sure that that won't -- and can't happen -- but the concept could rake in some cash as a Drew Barrymore movie, no? ;)