The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Apparantly there has been leaked on line some of the new tougher questions pupils will now face in future GCSE exams with the government's education reforms.

For instance, a standard arithmetic question will now be something like this:

"If a 30-year-old Maths teacher takes a 15-year-old pupil 350 miles to France at an average speed of 40mph, how many years will he get in jail?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19740811

FFS, who the hell would elope with a MATHS teacher? Maybe times have changed, but back in my day they were the ones in corduroy trousers & Hush Puppies who could bore for Team GB at the Olympics. Usually it was the music, PE & especially the art teachers that were the ones that had to be watched.