loved the kids, but not most of the peers. not much has changed, has it? you go governor christy. and james in north carolina says certainly they ought to, but the teachers union would not allow it, because the union exists to serve the teachers and what's more the massive administration and its layers of excess personnel. who could force the teachers to take the tests? they are above the law. mike said, i assumed they did in college beginning with the s.a.t.s and had they not passed they would not have been hired as teachers. we should give them the benefit of the doubt and stop trying to politicize the education system. to educate the children, the parents have to take responsibility and look at the classes that ri in and make them study and turn off the tvs and the video games and demand that your brats behave. jeff in hawaii writes i think it is a great idea. growing up in california, hayed a soccer coach who taught government and a football coach who taught health and a chemistry teacher who majored in english and a history teacher