"This Is Only a Test"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/photo-id-to-be-required-to-take-sat-act-exams/1#.T3H1nmE192A

As of this fall, all students taking SAT and ACT college entrance exams will have to present a photo ID.  This, of course, is to cut down on the rampant problem of wild teens’ under-age testing.

The photos of themselves on their ID cards will be helpful to public high school students who can’t read their own names.

“Peeping Principal”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/06/fbi-arrests-iowa-principal-for-allegedly-placing-camera-in-boys-bathroom/1

The FBI arrested an Iowa elementary school principal for installing a video camera in a boys’ bathroom and downloading images from it to his home computer.  The biggest surprise: this wasn’t even a Catholic school.

"All There in Black and White"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-01-23-chess_N.htm

Schools are implementing chess clubs at the elementary school level, for students as young as 2^nd and 3^rd graders as a way to teach critical thinking, confidence, and self esteem, which is more important than ever for nerds.

The programs are free since the kids’ lunch money was already collected by bullies.

In a nation of obese children, this now counts as gym class.

Sadly, the kids who are bad at chess end up selling their valuables at the pawn shop.