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Yesterday, Karen Stabiner (the author of 8 books!) of the Huffington Post, wrote an article about a new iPhone SAT Prep app that allows students to prepare for the tests “anytime anywhere.” She also says that parents who once feared that their son or daughters cell phone would interfere with their ability to prepare for the standardized test, can now feel relieved when their kids are using the mobile devices. She even notes that families can go on vacations again without having to worry about missing SAT class! Ahh, the wonders of technology.

Not only does the post seem to neglect the fact that there could, possibly, be other things going on in the lives of a teenager that aren’t the SAT, it also neglects my favorite feature of the new app. That is, of course, that it becomes easier to fake-prepping for those stupid standardized tests. It’s like the old comic book in the math text trick, except way easier. Now a kid can be fiddling on his iPhone and tell his mom he’s studying for the SAT’s when really he’s watching chimpanzees riding on a segway or exchanging lurid “sexts” with a grizzled 40-year-old trucker pretending to be a 16-year-old girl from Nebraska. Wonders of technology, indeed.