I just had lunch with a friend whose daughter is going to do her freshman year in Scotland at an all-girls school. It sounds so exciting and wonderful to escape the public high schools here, take French AND German, Drama AND Fine Arts, as well as access to state-of-the-art science lab equipment (compared to our 1950s models). I am so excited for her and wish NCLB and standards/benchmarks making electives practically non-existent would roll over and die.