[longshadow]

What does it mean, anyway, to have passed a course in High School where notoriously you pass if you don't get arrested?

It means that you DON'T have a set of mugs shots in book at the police station.... In some parts of America, that is considered an intellectual achievement. Welcome to the egalitarian educational paradise.

[VadeRetro]

Well, at least Mac didn't get arrested or he wouldn't have graduated. This perhaps doesn't make him quite the expert he imagines, but what do a bunch of old fogeys know anyway?