In her favour, she seems to have studied them thoroughly and always has a perfectly academic rebuff ready for the amorous male psychiatrists who want to teach her about human passions at first hand.
But is the academic community really ready for this shift?
The bill would require states to base student assessments on "college and career ready" academic standards for reading, math and science.
Both patterns reflect 5-year-olds who are not ready for academics.
Many 5-year-olds are not ready for academics, so several states have simply raised the kindergarten age.
Leonard Sax, a family physician in rural Maryland, notes that 5-year-old boys are less developmentally ready for academics than girls.
A final reason the shift in kindergarten is a bad idea is that even for children ready for academics, there is a trade-off, a price paid for formal reading and arithmetic.
John Carey has complained of Muldoon's poetry being "packed to the gunwales with higher education", all ready for academic consumption.
When officials judged which students had a real chance of academic success, those not ready for the highest level of ESL were not included.
We hate to be a reminder that summer is ending, but we're taking a break this week so that we can get our blog ready for academic year 2011-12.
