You really can’t make this stuff up.

The Florida Legislature has come up with a humdinger to award teachers bonuses based on the SAT or ACT scores they got in high school.

It won’t be based on their skills, training or ability to teach. The bonus won’t even have anything to do with how their students performed on statewide standardized tests.

All teachers need to do is prove they scored in the top 20 percent on their college-entrance exams.

Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel said, “The whole thing makes as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.”

In his article, “Paying Florida teachers based on 30-year-old test scores is nuts,” Maxwell explained:

“To get the estimated $8,400 bonus, teachers also must be ranked as "highly effective" (a rating that applies to more than 40 percent of teachers). And teachers can try to retake the SAT or ACT today. But this bonus plan was so widely panned — with award-winning teachers being denied payments — most people assumed this nonsensical initiative would die a welcome death after one year.”

This half-baked idea is still on the table and a prime example that shows lawmakers couldn’t care less about improving education in Florida.

In this state of weird news and weirder laws, we care more about pregnant pigs than we do children in school.

Remember a few years ago when Florida added to its constitution an amendment to prevent pregnant pigs from confinement in cages.

Maybe we should consider confining lawmakers in the cages, instead.

Unfortunately, in Florida, nonsense isn't a reason to stop anything. It's rarely even a hurdle. Legislators are barreling ahead with efforts to make this trial bonus plan permanent.

Why wouldn’t they?

Well, this is the state that has on its books laws that say it’s illegal to sell your children, unmarried couples may not commit “lewd acts” and live together in the same residence and doors of all public buildings must open outwards.

So, why are we surprised that the legislature would concoct a nonsensical idea to give teachers bonuses based on their test scores decades ago?

It has to be the dumbest idea yet, or a close second to the law that says in Pensacola, a woman may be fined (after her death) for being electrocuted in a bathtub from using self-beautification utensils.

Seriously folks. I couldn’t, even if I tried, to make this stuff up.