Who the hell needs to read anyway? I can think of plenty of successful people who I am absolutely positive can not read, Rosie O'Donnel for instance, if she could read her own magazine it never would have existed.

What I love here is the content of the test. I'm not even completely sure the school is aware what they're making us read. The questions are formulated something like this:

The roses are thorny.
I prick myself, but blood will not spill.
Instead there is only love.
I am like a river, always flowing.

Then come the fantastic questions:
The roses could be related to:
A) War
B) Carnations
C) The authors personal feelings.
D) Anything in the whole damn world.
E) Even a puppy.

Honestly, poetry is subjective, how can there be a right answer when it means so many things? Frankly I had a great desire to cross out the whole test and write, "I CNT REED!!!;" note the improperly used semi-colon (for good measure).

Illiteracy must be more and more common in America. The great thing about it though is we can talk about the illiterate as much as we want through writing. But if in 12 years some child had somehow not learned to read, and somehow gotten through every english class without fail then by god he's either smart or good looking enough for it not to matter.

It's nice to know that all my families hard earned tax money is going into finding out which people in our society are the idiots. Frankly I think it's the ones giving the test.