On the first day of my summer vacation...

I can't stand people who whine when they are faced with a challenge. There has been more whining in the news about the FCAT then there was about the hurricanes last year. I love the idea of the FCAT. We need to weed out the people who can't deal with the little blessings of stress that life presents. if I had to buckle down and pass the FCAT when I was in high school then maybe I wouldn't have taken a whole 5 years to breeze through my undergrad experience. Damn sissies...suck it up!!!!! I submitted the following, less bitter, rant to the Orlando Sentinel today. That trash rag better start printing more of my shit!!!!

Do you want to be protected by law enforcement officers who are able to perform well in stressful situations? Do you want to be sure that your surgeon won’t lose her cool if something goes wrong in the operating room? The rational answer is an unopposed “yes”. So why then do we have all of this negative hype regarding the FCAT? The FCAT is an excellent tool for testing a student’s ability to deal with a stressful situation. They must complete a difficult challenge with limited resources in a limited amount of time. That sure sounds like environment that nearly every person in this country deals with on a daily basis. Nearly every career that requires any kind of education will involve high stress situations. Students need to learn to deal with stress just as much as they need to know math, science, history, and English. If you can’t deal with stressful situations then maybe you are not ready to leave school. The FCAT is a step in the right direction.