[BlessedBeGod]

Unbelievable. Only in Palm Beach.

[Poohbah]

And watch: students that don't get 23 questions correct will insist that the test layout confused them and demand a mulligan. Meanwhile, their teachers will be looking for possible correct answers (dimpled checkbox, erased checkbox, etc).

[mgc1122]

Un-f'ing believable. Do yourselves, your kids and the nation - get the gubbmit out of schools.

[El Sordo]

Multiple choice?

If they give three possibilities, you could fly through, select random answers, finish the test in two minuutes, and still be almost assured of getting a 'B'.

[prophetic]

its a darn crying shame.

Gee I wonder if I can get a well paying executive job ($100,000 per year) while failing 70% of the interview questions?

[Youngblood]

Dear oh dear!

[Big Dan]

Assume that there are 4 possibilities for each question. If you answer "D" for *every question*, you will likely pass.

In other words, you have to be worse than random to fail that thing. Feh.

[cgbg]

new final exam for American and world history classes was developed by school district officials to ensure students learn state- required lessons that include history about women, Africans, African-Americans and the Holocaust.

women, Africans, and African-Americans?

Jeb, sounds like you got a lefty propaganda problem here.

Home School Bump!

[lds23]

23 is a fantastic number.

[Thinkin' Gal]

23/Palm Beach alert. They might as well insert those verichips as the tests get handed back, in case any of these high-schoolers get lost in life.

[Ohioan]

The new final exam for American and world history classes was developed by school district officials to ensure students learn state- required lessons that include history about women, Africans, African-Americans and the Holocaust.

Why do I suspect, without even looking at the questions, that there may actually be a net gain for civilization, if the students only master 23% of this curriculum?

Traditional history--real history--would of course include information about a very wide variety of identifiable parties and factors. But real American History to be a comprehensible part of the history of America, must put the principal emphasis on the origins of settlement, the Revolution, the men who conducted it, and those who established the institutions of the new Federal Republic and its member States. That is the foundation for everything that has happened since, and any other emphasis must lead to very, very confused young minds, unable to relate much of anything to much of anything else.

Of course, confusion is the Left's stock-in-trade.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[CounterCounterCulture]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - You can get three-quarters of the answers wrong and still pass this test.

Oh, that's just too damn easy. Palm Beach County? Figures.

[litehaus]

"Unbelievable. Only in Palm Beach"

AND,TOMORROW THEY VOTE!!!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

23 That's even lower than just dumb luck. I guess it's off to vote then! That explains how Gore couldn't even get the random vote for Palm Beach.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Mark my words, catastrophic stupidity from within this nation will cause the death of this nation, or at the very least, this nation's government.

[Steve_Seattle]

In a few years these students will show up at the polls on election day, will be confused by - and unable to read - the ballot, and will complain that they were disenfranchised and their voting rights denied.

[N. Theknow]

The new final exam for American and world history classes was developed by school district officials to ensure students learn state- required lessons that include history about women, Africans, African-Americans and the Holocaust.

I don't think I could answer 23 questions correctly if the test included PC-BS about these topics.

I have also pondered the meaning of the shortest month of the year being named "Black History Month".

[Steve_Seattle]

If the answers are relatively evenly distributed between A, B, C, D, you could pass by answering "A" to every single question. You wouldn't have to know the correct answer to ANY of the questions.

[KentuckyWoman]

I suppose they could have just redrawn the "curve" or given the students "points" just for writing their names like they did with the SATs and avoided the public knowing about the lack of knowledge possed by today's students......

[doc30]

And in Hillsborough county, contrary to State requirements, no student who fails the F-CAT will have to repeat that grade. What's the poin in even having tests. Can't we just say that schools are "Children and Teenager Babysitting Indoctrination Centers?"

[mindprism.com]

Our definition of evil equates to 'loss of human lives'. The greater the loss, the greater the evil. This is because, as individuals, our arch-nemisis is death. The individual has little concern for 'the future of humanity or civilization' and shrugs responsibility onto 'generations to come' or 'the leaders in government'.

When mini-mega-death is considered, no one dare recognize the core meaninglessness of individual lives in modern times and the insignificance of the loss in the bigger picture.

I'm contending there is a far greater evil than such losses, that is: the loss of human potential, destiny, dignity, and morality on the scale of civilizations. The erosion and deformation of human spirit as a whole is the most sinister evil we face.

As long as the individual has no higher concern than himself humanity will continue on this abominable path. We stand in awe of the perverse and sanctify iconoclastic cultural poisons.

In newspeak, pressure to be good equates to oppression and defiance is held up as heroism.