Oh Well:

About 96 percent of this year's high school seniors passed the MCAS test required for graduation, prompting state Education Commissioner David P. Driscoll yesterday to renew his call for making the exam tougher.

Obviously Massachusetts' students are in a lose lose situation.

Why can't we just acknowledge that maybe public education is doing a good job, instead of continuing to say, `Well, the only reason we did this well is the test is too easy?' " asked Robert J. Calabrese, superintendent of schools in Billerica, where 100 percent of seniors passed. "Maybe we did this well because public education is doing the job that people don't want to give us enough credit for."