The Times is reporting one of the more arcane secrets of GCSE marking. One student in a GCSE English exam answered a question with `fuck off.' Apparently our child prodigy got marks for spelling it correctly and `conveying a meaning successfully.' The question? `Describe the room you're sitting in.'
*puts hands over eyes* *despairs*
Of course, this is how I got my `O'-level. Although that was in domestic science.