Maybe this is why test scores are up

Florida kids aren't getting drunk and stoned as much as they used to, according to 2007 survey results released this morning by Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp. Since 2000, alcohol use has dropped from 34.3 percent to 31.2 percent. Cigarettes are now at 8.5 percent; marijuana at 11 percent; and over-the-counter drug abuse at 4 percent. See the full report here.

- Ron Matus, state education reporter

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[Dave]

Test scores are up, because we lower the standards, and make the tests say whatever we want them too. This is not a new trend either.
Students are shuffled around from homeroom to homeroom, school to school, in order to allow them not to count in the school numbers, and test reports. It is known as the FCAT shuffle, actually documneted in a number of books.
If you are talking about county exams, when a test score in honors physics is a 41 and that is equal to an A? Well what do you think people are going to say? Great job teachers, my kid got an A. The district(s) are not going to tell those parents that their kid got a 41, they are going to say they got an A.
Less drinking, and drug use? I would like to get those real numbers, because from what I have seen and heard, it may be at an all time high!
Sorry! Facts are Facts.