Re: [web-heads] A Practical Use For Hamsters

[Frank Wales <frank@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:01 -0500, mikitka wrote:
> What's really sad is:
> 
> "The teenage inventor was given a C for his project and has been awarded a D 
> overall for the course."

Educational standards are very high in England, you know;
to get an 'A', he probably ought to have used a robot hamster.
One of these, for example:
  http://www.stupid.com/stat/CHAM.html

Such high standards are no doubt the main reason why there 
is now a 98% pass rate in these courses:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4182006.stm

When nearly everyone passes, clearly some people have 
to make do with lower marks -- it's only fair. :-)
-- 
Frank Wales [frank@xxxxxxxxx]


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