It’s 13 not 37.

This just annoyed me. The headline for this article in the Wenatchee World reads: WASL stops 37 Wenatchee seniors from graduating. But read a little further and the article goes on to say that of those 37 seniors, 24 wouldn’t have graduated anyway due to lack of credits. That leaves only 13. Well, two can play at this game.

We’ve all heard the numbers – 91.4 percent of the Class of 2008 met the WASL reading and writing requirement. But if you take a closer look at the numbers, you'll find that approximately 3,000 students statewide have no WASL score on record. Basically, they've never taken the test. So when you factor in these students and only look at the number of kids who attempted the WASL, a whopping 95 percent met the standard. 95 percent!

But no one's telling that story, now are they?