This from MSN News 16 August

Schoolboy gains bus qualification

A schoolboy has gained a qualification for getting on a bus - despite not knowing he had taken the test.
Bobby McHale, 15, received a letter from an exam board recognising his ability to walk to the bus stop, wait for it to arrive and to board the vehicle.
It came from the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, the largest of the three English exam boards, and was titled Using Public Transport (Unit 1).

This is nothing more or less than is to be expected of the Nanny State; The Department of Education can be well pleased with themselves for coming up with this one; only question is… do you still pass if you get on the wrong bus…?

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One comment.

In my daughters school in Spain, several times a week the bus has to divert for a child on the wrong one.

All i can say is down there, if they had this test, they`d probably abandon it as a complete waste of time, not because its useless, but due to the high failure rate.

😊

I think to merely live in the United Kingdom is worthy of some accolade, let alone a qualification. How about we send some food parcels there, or have a whip-round for the few million unemployed who have been slipped off the register by political sleight of hand?

mike_walsh - 16 August 2009 10:50 PM

. How about we send some food parcels there,

I was gonna ask you too send a Leg of Jamon , but I realised I bought one last month in the UK.😉