Mood:  don't ask

Today was my first day back at school since the day before Good Friday. I have to write both a rough draft and final draft of an English paper about the government of China by this Friday. I need to have read the first four chapters of 'The Good Earth' soon, along with the vocab, and some comprehensive questions. Also, I have to come up with perfect advice for my friend. She likes our other friend. They hand out all the time. I swear, they are closer than me and her. And she likes him. He's completely oblivious to this of course (boys! uggg!). So I need to give her the perfect advice to handle that little problem of hers. Plus, I have to deal with my own boy problems. I officially can not wait for tenth grade to be over (only about 5 weeks left!).

In 8th grade, my grandparents decided that I shouldn't be in public school anymore (despite the fact that I have survived in public school since I was in 3rd grade, they think that I can't handle it, apparently). So they enrolled me in the private school that I spent K-2nd in: Jackson Christian School. All of my friends are still in the various public schools in Jackson.

However, I am currently very glad that I was moved when I was. The No Child Left Behind thing is lowering the standards of the school system. The smart children get less recognition for their hard work. And many students are just taking advantage of the new system, and doing less work. They pass anyway.

The No Child Left Behind policy is great-sounding, in theory. But with children having learning disabilities, it can only be viewed as wishful thinking, a pipedream at best. The only way to acheive the expectations that legislation has put on school systems is to lower the standards. And lowering a school system's standards only serves to ruin children's educations. Does the government even think about the laws that they are passing? Or are they just picking random laws to pass/fail? Because that's what it seems like.

On a lighter note, I took my ACT on Saturday. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I expect somewhere around a 26, since I kept running out of time (at which point I would just bubble them randomly), because of my daydreaming tendencies. When my school took the PLAN test, my results predicted somewhere between a 30 and a 36. Yeah, right. Keep dreaming.