Once again, I don't pay a lot of attention to our state's education system. This is because I fortunately don't have any kids that legally belong to me. I know, I know, children bring joy and love and happiness into your life. That's cool. The next time I'm drinking a mojito at 1:30pm or sleeping or not cleaning crayon off a wall, I'll totally think about how happy you are.
On the topic of happiness, that's a word that most people don't mention when discussing Oklahoma's A-F school grading system. Virtually everyone, especially professionals (a.k.a. teachers, administrators, superintendents) who have dedicated their lives to public education, hate the system. This is for several reasons, like it doesn't accurately measure the performance of schools, depends too much on test scores, and seems to be the first part of conservative agenda to cripple public education in favor of for-profit charter and private schools.