Isn't Dolly fabulous!  This lens is about nothing and everything. It is comprised of my random rates and raves which change daily. The bit around education was written during the early days of the NCLB act...GO BUSH GO! where I vomited daily as the rise of mediocrity as the American way became the norm. It was also the time where I fought alongside my collegues to save our little learning academy (which by the way was a success. Not based on the number students seamlessly continuting thier education or the countless letters from parents and students but the Broad Prize in Educaiton was won by the LBUSD and the shcolarship money went in a large majority to ODYSSEY GRADs...go TEAM go), but ...we lost anyway. So since we all know too well the impacts of a C student making the rules and stlll have a leader with a sub-standard intellect, I say what WHAT...what the fuck ?.  Education is about exposure and THINKING. I am my education, the books, music, travels, beliefs, career choice....IMPACTED by my education....We need a thinking population who can enter the world able to think, act, and access the world...the CASHEE a test written at the 7th/8th grade level is the standard of what 12 years of public education should provided its citizens...if youre around my age we took these tests and passed them in the 7th grade and secretly wondered about those who had to take them again and again. Those kids still live at home in their parents basement.