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Some of us still mourn Weekly World News.

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"All this amounts to is Georgia being the 40th dumbest state instead of the 42nd dumbest state before the cheating. "

Hey, Georgia's teachers did the best they could with those highly biased questions. (The correct answers were known to people in places like Massachusetts.)

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Worse, they gonna grow up and maybe vote Democrat.

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Makes you wonder why Sarah Palin reads them all.

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Bzzzzt.

Kids learn in Catholic schools... or else!

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So this is actually a Title IX thing. Clever!

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Only since the Union states became friends with the Russkies.

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They'll both vote Republican, so I call it a tie.

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Were number 1!!!

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Even dumb kids know better than to change their report cards from F's to A's. You go for C's! B's are also liable to arouse suspicion.

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If they were all home schooled or went to Catholic schools we wouldn't have this problem. Instead our kids would be completely illiterate and their asses would be broken in for when they get out into the real world.

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But teachers are trained to professionally sniff out cheating I thought. They're supposed to be pros at this. That, plus their wild overreaching is funny to me.

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Change, your answers well This standard's hell So just start cheating

And feed them the right grade It's a fair trade To miss a beating

Don't you ever tell them why 'Cuz you know that they will cry So just look at them and sigh

...because the NCLB is the worst piece of education legislation know to maaaan.

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No child left behind.

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and here i was just bemoaning the loss of 'news of the world'.

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yeah but just look at those low tax rates!

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