Sleeveless pineapple elicits grapes of wrath.

Maybe the test-makers' intent was
to introduce more fruits and vegetables
into the children's thinking diet.
Perhaps Carrot Top can create
future test questions?

No kidding.  Now here's a real Race to the Top:  The New York Times reports of a standardized middle school test question about a pineapple that challenges a rabbit to a race that has elicited so much scorn and outrage the state has opted not to count the answer.  According to the Times, the question was adapted from a story by children's writer Daniel Pinkwater:

The crux of the passage is that the pineapple challenges the hare to a race, and the other animals are convinced the pineapple must have a trick up its sleeve and will win.  When the pineapple stands still, the animals eat it.  The moral of the story:  "Pineapples don't have sleeves."

Student were asked which animal in the story was the wisest and why did the animals eat the pineapple.  (The owl was the wisest, and the animals ate the pineapple because they were hungry.)

Pinkwater heard about the furor from ticked off students.  The writer "said he considered himself a nonsense writer, and the test-makers had taken his story far too seriously. 'Well give me a break,' he said.  'It's a nonsense story, and there isn't an option for a nonsense answer.'"

The test question has already been used in four other states as far back as 2007, which begs the question:  Who tests the tests?  Here's the link:  http://tinyurl.com/6rpse9d