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April 1, 2005

Leave no lawmaker behind

Taking up a dare from high school seniors, 94 percent of lawmakers who took a state's high school exit exam flunked it. "Never again will I utter the words 'Our schools just aren't what they used to be,'" said Education Committee Chairman Bill Brainiac, the sponsor of the 2002 law requiring the exit exam. "Thank God, I'm not in school anymore. These questions are impossible," he was overheard muttering to an aide. "What in the world is an algorithm anyway? They should get partial credit just for spelling the damn word correctly."

Posted April 1, 2005 12:00 AM