Wake up: update twitter. Get home from school: update Twitter. An hour later: three-hour stalkbook (Facebook stalking) session. Ten o’clock emerges and you realize you have yet to start that AP World packet that’s due tomorrow.

The benefits of taking AP classes are apparent: challenging coursework, rigorous curriculum, and the opportunity to earn college credit and prepare for secondary education in general. And our administration hasn’t exactly been gentle when cramming the glory of AP down our throats at every waking moment.

I was originally disgusted by the Tea Party’s hostile and confrontational nature, but as soon as I heard that their recent efforts to protest health insurance reform included vandalizing congressional offices, threatening members of Congress and marching around with pictures of President Obama wearing a swastika, my view completely changed. I even decided to join these brave patriots in their crusade for Freedom.

On April 4, the Cedar Rapids Gazette published their annual report on Eastern Iowa students’ performances, which is a summary of how every school in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor performed on standardized tests from ’07-’09.