Italian kids indulge in a little vandalism to get out of an exam:
Four Italian teenagers have confessed to flooding one of Milan's best known schools, causing an estimated 500,000 euros in damage, because they did not want to sit a Greek exam. The three girls and one boy, aged between 16 and 17, delivered a letter to the school's headmaster on Thursday, explaining how last weekend they blocked drains in a bathroom before they turned on washbasin taps and left them running.
The headmaster, Carlo Arrigo Pedretti, said the pupils wrote in the letter that they flooded the school to avoid having to sit their ancient Greek test on Monday morning. "I am stunned, I cannot believe it," Pedretti said. "These kids have no idea of the consequence of their actions."
I agree, but in a different way than Pedretti probably thinks. I mean, the Greek language has been around, in one form or another, for over 2100 years. It's not going to go away before the flooded school gets repaired. If those students ever get let back into the school, that evil exam will be sitting there, patiently waiting.
Posted by kswygert at October 25, 2004 03:10 PM