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UK School System Requires
All Teenagers Get Certification In Knowing How To Catch A Bus
So students who
can't get certified in anything else won't feel bad
Students in Greater Manchester, UK, will need to achieve certification
in , "Using Public Transport (Unit 1)" which recognizes a teenager's
ability to catch a public bus. Specifically,
- Walk
to a bus stop.
- Stand
or sit and wait. Presumably you lose certification if you lie
down on the road or go onto the bus shelter roof.
- Enter
the bus calmly and safely.
- Sit
where the bus driver tells you to sit.
- Leave
the bus safely.
Why? "For some it may be the only
qualifications they get."
It has to be extremely embarrassing though for students who don't get
qualified.
Says one teenager, “At
first I thought I’d got some sort of GCSE early. But when I read out
the details to the family we all fell about laughing. "
Now that they've been globally ridiculed, the Authority says they
somehow suddenly came to realize that they used all the wrong words for
the certification requirements. We award
them certification in "Using Back Peddling (Unit 1)."
In
other news, the lowest possible point in "dummying down" has
been discovered in the UK.
The Telegraph (UK) 13-Aug-09
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