DAN IS UNWELL

Poor Dan. He feels crummy. He has a fever and some sort of virus, so he missed school today - something Dan rarely does. He hopes to be better tomorrow, as the Marchmasters are supposed to march at halftime tomorrow (yes, a Thursday football game. It's not right).

Not much excitement in my world today. I took a quiz, and I'm going to brag:



I outscored the Harvard kids!

The overall average score for the approximately 7,000 seniors who took the American civic literacy exam was 54.2%, an “F.” That is consistent with the overall average of 53.2% posted by seniors last year. Not one college surveyed can boast that its seniors scored, on average, even a “C” in American civic knowledge.

Harvard seniors scored highest, but their overall average was 69.6%, a “D+.” That is almost identical to the 69.7% earned by Harvard seniors last year. Yale and Princeton seniors averaged only 65.9% and 61.9%, respectively. At 18 colleges, the average senior scored less than 50%.

But I shouldn't get a big head, or Peggy and Retta will post 100% scores on me.