What is this with teachers offering ‘alternatives’ to taking final exams? A couple of weeks ago I was watching the news about kids being able to skip final exams if they got xx,xxx amount of tweets or Facebook likes, and this morning it was if the kids gave up their phones for a week, they didn’t have to take their math final exam. I guess I shouldn’t be horribly surprised, when my kids were in school, it seemed like every week they got to bring a video in for the class to watch.