A reader writes: "Did you see this? The headline is "Unfair burden?" above a story about California requiring high school students to be able to speak, read, and write English to graduate."
The long sob story, by Nanette Asimov (email her), San Francisco Chronicle, February 27 2006, reveals that 73,270 California high school seniors - one in five of the state's Class 0f 2006 - are "in the same pickle."
