Failing Your Way Thru School

This jewel from Vox:

.... Spacebunny was amused to pass along the following news about the changing graduation requirements for the highly regarded Minnesota public school system:

[T]he Legislature recently decided that students no longer have to pass the 11th-grade math test -- many educators think it's too difficult -- and would have caused a precipitous drop in graduation rates next year.... The solution passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, however, could raise a few eyebrows: Students either have to pass the test once, or fail it three times, to graduate.

Isn't that marvelous? Fail three times and you graduate, from a school in the highly regarded Minnesota public school system.

And you still wonder why we have a nation of idiots that would elect a hack like Obama?