Summer School 2006

I was fortunate enough to get some summer subbing work at an adult education school. The kids who are about to graduate but are short a few credits go there. The ones who went in the summer were pretty relaxed. Going back there again in the fall, I find the kids to be pushy and demanding. Panic has set in: after going to school for twelve years, they discover they might not graduate.

Requirements have toughened up during their lifetimes. They find they must take exit exams now. When they started school back in 1994, No Child Left Behind didn’t exist. So should today’s graduating students be exposed to these new rules?