victory in iraq...if passing is 35%

if a student gets 39% on a test, that's much worse than just failing, right? so, if iraq missed 11 of 18 benchmarks, does that mean they have to retake the test again or do we just hold them back a year (again)? someone needs to tell the president that even though karl rove is gone, he still doesn't (and never did) have the math.