The best thing about Arizona colleges is that while the state enjoys screwing them like a sailor on shore leave, they manage to avoid much curricular interference from our state legislators, who collectively have brains whose complexity rivals that of an Etch A Sketch.
Case in point: The new brain crack-child of our noble leaders comes as an attempt to shore up our educational system, which has hovered between 48th and 49th in the nation since I can remember. (Thank God for Texas and Mississippi.) According to the misfiring neurons of our dear leaders, who have been so eager to jump on the accountability bandwagon that they timed it wrong and were run down by it, "We need to hold schools accountable for their failing kids," who have actually been largely a result of the leaders' incompetence. But since every time they nod their head their brains reset themselves, they are still convinced it's the teachers' fault.
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