Saturday, September 11, 2004

Rubbery standards in Germany too: "A German teacher ended up in the dock and was ordered to give a pupil higher marks after her parents complained their daughter should have been given better grades. The 10-year-old girl missed out on a grammar school place because her grades were not high enough, but after quizzing their daughter about her poor performance, the parents decided the teacher was to blame -- and took the case to court. The couple's legal team claimed that the questions posed in assignments were unfair because they were phrased in an ambiguous way, and demanded that the child be marked up and allowed to enter grammar school."

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