– Half of Florida high school students fail reading test (Reuters, May 18, 2012):
MIAMI – Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state’s new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday.
Results this year from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test showed 52 percent of freshman students and 50 percent of sophomores scored at their grade levels.
Students in the 10th grade must pass the exam in order to eventually graduate but can retake it if they fail.
The results came days after the Florida State Board of Education voted to lower the standards needed to pass the writing part of the test, known as FCAT. The test is administered in public elementary, middle and high schools.
The board took the action in an emergency meeting when preliminary results indicated only about one-third of Florida students would have passed this year.
“We are asking more from our students and teachers than we ever have, and I am proud of their hard work,” Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson said in a statement.
“As Florida transitions to higher standards and higher expectations, we can expect our assessment results to reflect those changes.”
It works! Just feed the sheeple more MSG, Aspartame, Fluoride and High-Fructose Corn Syrup, …
– Sugar (High-Fructose Corn Syrup) Can Make You Dumb, US scientists warn
– Interview With Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock On MSG And Brain-Damaging Excitotoxins (Video)
… administer more vaccines …
– Study: Baby Monkeys Given Standard Doses Of Popular Vaccines Develop AUTISM Symptoms
… and some more death dumps:
– Dr. Russell Blaylock: Chemtrails, Nanoaluminum And Neurodegenerative And Neurodevelopmental Effects
– Obama’s Science Adviser John Holdren Says CHEMTRAILS (= ‘Death Dumps’) Will Save The Planet!
…and here come the ‘brilliant minds’!