Florida School Stops Providing Mountain Dew Shots Before Standardized Tests

Bottoms up, kid! Your grades count on it.

Next up in “Jacked-up Standardized Testing” News, we go to Melbourne, Fla. HELLO!

According to a story broken by Brevard County’s News 13 and later covered by NPR, some parents questioned officials at Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary School after they found out that teachers made Mountain Dew “available to the students” before they took part in the Florida Comprehensive Assessments Test (FCAT).

Oh, and this practice to get elementary school children amped up for the big test has been happening for the past 10 years. 

We already brought you a bad PR standardized test story from Houston today, so what the hell, right?

The caffeine shot pep rally was discovered last week by a student’s grandmother Martha Thorp.