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You Just Wouldn't Believe It

How's this for a bit of cheek. A British schoolgirl is suing her former private school over the fact that she got an E in Latin.

The poor wee dear was used to much higher grades (like As) and an E, a scrape-through pass if ever we've seen one, will do her employment chances not a lot of good.

Apparently law firms are very keen on Latin (the ancient language being fairly new the last time an honest and ethical lawyer was found) and an E means newcomers may struggle carrying all those cups of cappuccino to the senior partners.

Anyway, our litigious would-be litigant is blaming a new teacher who allegedly failed to keep to the syllabus for her dramatic fall from top of the class to cretinous dunce.

Now we could say something about a poor workman blaming his tools - however the best comments come from the dear's dad.

He, a stock broker (say no more), reckons his beloved little angel studied Latin for thousands of hours and an E was not worthy of all the work she put in to the subject.

Well, daddy dear, I should point out that if she studied for thousands of hours then she should know enough to fly through an exam - even if the teacher didn't stick with the syllabus.

I mean, if I studied Latin, or Greek, or Japanese, or French or American for thousands of hours - I'd be a bloody expert!

Sounds to me like your darling dear isn't really suited to law. What would happen if a big, nasty criminal said boo to her in court. What would she do? Sue them? Or cry?

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