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June 01, 2005
I Am Glad I Already Finished Highschool
California (where I grew up) has one of worst state governments ever. The state legislaturte has now banned textbooks that are over 200 pages long. When I was in high school most of my textbooks were at least 200 pages long and I am pretty sure that everyone of my AP history and science textbooks were that long. My highschool biology textbook was one of the standard college freshmen biology textbooks, but was well over 200 pages long and would thus be banned. My history books had deep and complex informtion and often had to cover several centuries of history dealing with many different countries. In one history class I had two different textbooks each of which was over 200 pages long and I finished reading both of them by the end of the school year. Of course I passed all the AP tests I took and ended up with 30 hours of credit before I had stepped into my first college class, but with the textbooks the Democrats in the state legistlature are requiring students to use many inteligent and hardworking students will be denied the opportunities I had. I suppose one of the biggest issues is why the state legislature is even concerned with the size of textbooks. I am glad that I no longer live under the rulse of California's legislature.
Posted by Pete at June 1, 2005 11:16 PM
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