It's not the amount they are out... It's more the amount of teaching that actually occurs... they don't learn anything... and it IS having an effect... all the schools are worried about is how well a student is going to do on a standardized test... and those standardized tests are not a good thing... I am not a great test taker... so you can imagine... My act score was a 19... I am very smart, I may not spell everything correctly or use grammar in the exact way I should but no one is perfect... the above is just ignorance... or a kid who is highly intelligent just trying to be a smart arse. 16 year olds are quite clever when it comes to that aspect of their teen age lives.