Occasionally my friend Kellina asks me to proctor the ACT test at Holy Trinity High School. In the interest of helping out and making some extra scrizzle, I usually oblige her.

On this particular occasion, I noticed that many students left large sections at the end of each test blank. Even the ACT guidelines are explicit in the fact that it is to the student's advantage to answer every question. I wanted to encourage them, but as an impartial proctor, was helpless to do anything about it. It's the same type of student apathy that killed me slowly over the last few years.