They did get rid of it at my middle/high school. There were programs for gifted students, but parents complained and they were cut. There was no Honors program, the most we had was a few college math and science classes taught by a teacher and given credit through a local community college.
Being in New York, there was also a "Regents" path (college focused) and "Local" path (non-college focused). But of course everyone should want to go to college so now everyone has to pass the standard Regents exams at the end of each year to graduate. Now granted, the exams covered the basics that you should know, but there were many classes that non-college bound students should not have had to take.
I'm glad I got away from that backward thinking, but then I moved to Virginia which has the "Standards-of-Learning" (SOL, how apt) whichis basically the same thing.
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Of course not, they'd take it out with a "frickin' laser."
They did get rid of it at my middle/high school. There were programs for gifted students, but parents complained and they were cut. There was no Honors program, the most we had was a few college math and science classes taught by a teacher and given credit through a local community college.
Being in New York, there was also a "Regents" path (college focused) and "Local" path (non-college focused). But of course everyone should want to go to college so now everyone has to pass the standard Regents exams at the end of each year to graduate. Now granted, the exams covered the basics that you should know, but there were many classes that non-college bound students should not have had to take.
I'm glad I got away from that backward thinking, but then I moved to Virginia which has the "Standards-of-Learning" (SOL, how apt) whichis basically the same thing.
Maybe they feel that while it's fine for the desktop, Linux just isn't ready for production servers?
I do both development AND marketing. Imagine how confused I am!