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Perspective : SAT Prep :: Fish : Bicycle?

By drorzel on January 19, 2007.

As I said previously, I get a lot of emails from people looking to promote their sites, and I do try to look at most of them. Yesterday's batch included ePrep, a site offering college preparation advice, and while I can't speak for the quality of their services, they get a link for pointing me to these SAT prep shower curtains. From the Amazon page, you get the chirpy description:

A simple, effective, and stress free learning tool for your children taking the SATs, allowing them to learn the basic SAT math concepts while taking a shower. Concepts include fractions, geometry, probability, and more!

Yes, that's right-- why let your college-bound teen have a single stress-free moment? Study in the shower, too!

Jesus, people, get a grip.

(Though, actually, that suggests a marketing angle they could pursue-- they could probably pitch these to some fundie "abstinence-only" group as a masturbation preventative. Because, really...)

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Oh look, right at the start, he's already hitting on your How to Lie with Statistics entry!

That's so freaking crazy. I'm truly grateful that my parents never made me do a bit of test prep. A lot of my friends complained that their parents forced them to prioritize test prep over homework, which is exactly backwards of how normal people and college admissions people have their priorities.