[Ennui.]

If people have a hard time sitting through six hours of school, why are they going to be any more motivated to go through ten hours of school?

Plus, Cara, you're SO right about the testing. My English teacher's retiring next year. Why? Because she's tired of all the testing and realizes the tests don't accurately measure anything. One test doesn't help anything. My teacher is tired of being chained down, teaching to a test. She said the tests are more for making money than anything, and that's probably what the entire system is. It's a shame, though, we're losing great teachers like her and others who want to get out before they screw up the system more. The ones who realize that ten hour days and testing aren't going tro work.