Lose hope
Recently, my wife has become a teacher. She wants to specialise in teaching low ability kids.

Her 1st year is going well, but exam time comes and she expects very little. Apart from Freddie. Her golden boy. Maybe a grade C. Even a B!

Exam comes and goes; Aug 22nd or something like that, results day.

Freddie has achieved a U. Wife Strump see young person waiting around out side school. Gives some sympathy.

2 weeks later she gets the Exam Overview - basically something from the exam board saying what a departments kids are good at. They have a "special mention"

Student 1866 - Freddie would have achieved a high Grade B; if half way through the paper he hadn't broken into a rant about how "fucking pointless this question was and how the person setting the exam was a fucking this and fucking that". Fair enough, it was Pythagoras but he had his entry revoked and his B + rant ended up in a U.
(Strump striving for imperfection since, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 0:41, 6 replies)

I don't believe a word of it
Mum taught spackers for 20 odd years, and any kid that smart was enrolled in mainstream school
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 5:01, closed)

^This
It does sound like something a Aspergic "might" do... in a fiction book.
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 7:54, closed)

Plus I'm almost certain they can't "revoke" a grade...
you get enough points, you get the grade, simple as. I have a friend that pretty much took the piss out of almost every question on his GCSE science paper (The best example being his answer to how a microwave works - By beaming in tiny tiny atomic sized leprechauns with lighters who then heat the food from the inside before floating away)but still got an E grade. (He's now retaking his GCSE science paper 6 years later)
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 9:37, closed)

best answer to a question
EVAH!
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:58, closed)

But....
...you can't say that leprechauns make microwaves work, it is an incredibly offensive racist title to use. Microwaves work because of tiny non-culturally identifiable mythical humanoids of a certain stature and garb....d'uh everyone knows that!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 24 Mar 2010, 16:29, closed)

.
Serves the git right.
(champagnerocker, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 18:09, closed)