<p>Wow. The worst ever (IMHO as a student) is the all-time heavyweight punching-bag: KENTUCKY!!! My AP Chem teacher stopped teaching in JANUARY to prepare us for the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System in April, which is graded on a 140 point scale with, ahem, "fluid" rubrics, as far as I can tell. </p>
<p>Therefore, when all schoolsystems have to pass the 100/140 mark (yeah, we're dumb, so we have to have a base-10 goal) by 2014, there is nothing stopping them from just lowering the guidelines so everyone, indeed, is at 100%. </p>
<p>BTW, this test is ridiculously easy. But people in Kentucky still fail it miserably. So maybe we need it easy. But for god's sakes why not make it standardized, or at least comparable from year to year.</p>
<p>PS: To the OP: I'm sure you never considered it, but don't move to KY. And my family wonders why I want to go to boarding school........</p>