Kyron Birdine with smiley face.
(Credit: KENS Channel 5 Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Schools aren't always the best listeners.
Sometimes they make kids do things that the kids don't want to do. And when the kids complain, the school just gets annoyed.
This might be the picture in the case of Kyron Birdine, a junior at Arlington High School in Texas.
"It didn't benefit my personal life at all," Birdine explained to San Antonio's KENS Channel 5.
No, he wasn't talking about school. He was just talking about one little test that his school forced him to take.
You see, he was graduating under a testing standard called TAKS. But the school made him take a test under some newfangled standard called STAAR.
I am not aware if Birdine will, one day, be a star, but he clearly found this test taxin... [Read more]
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