My colleague, humor writer Erik Deckers, recently wrote a funny blog post that I think highlights a uniquely British absurdity.
Recently, a British School student was given an award for riding the bus.
I’ll let Erik explain:
Bobby McHale will go far in his life. At least as far as the 8:35 to Downtown bus goes.
The 15-year-old school student received a certificate for catching a bus. His 13-year-old brother, Joe, did not fare so well. He failed this simple task.
According to an article in London’s Metro website, Bobby didn’t even realize he was being graded on this rather difficult and arduous task, so you can imagine his family’s pride and joy at the letter he received.
Read the rest of Erik Decker’s lovely and hilarious post here.
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What the Metro fails to point out is that this child was Autistic.
The eduction system has put in place an examination system in which children with varying degrees of learning difficulty can gain a qualification, which in this day and age is a must for those children with difficulties that are in “mainstream” schooling, whose peers walk away with 10+ GCSEs and they have nothing to show for their time at school.
So yes to the general public this Bus test may seem silly, but to a child with learning difficulties it proves that they can command basic life skills.