August 2nd, 2008 at 6:00 am
Did you hear about the 8 year old Brazilian boy who’d always dreamed of becoming a judge? He just passed a law school entrance exam!
The news shocked Brazil’s legal profession and has prompted a federal investigation!
The Universidade Paulista, a multi-campus private university, issued a statement acknowledging that Joao Victor Portellinha de Oliveira had passed the entrance exam and that it initially enrolled him. But he was turned away from classes when he showed up with his father.
The University now claims that the fifth grader must graduate from high school before they’ll accept him into the university program. A university employee erred when they accepted Oliveira’s enrollment and said that the University fees would be returned to the family.
“I think they should have been more considerate,” the boy’s mother, Maristela, told the UOL news website. “At least they could’ve allowed him to visit the college’s facilities.”
The Brazilian Bar Association said the boy’s achievement should be a warning about the low standards of some of the country’s law schools.
Oliveira is two grade levels ahead of normal for his age, but his mother says he’s not a cloistered genius.
“He is a regular boy,” she told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. “He is very dedicated, likes to read and study, but he has fun and makes friends.”
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February 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 am
Now here’s a great idea for the kids to get out of going to school!
A while back teens in Carlsbad, California weren’t able to get into their high school classes. The school has 100 door and every single one was glued shut!
It took the vandal all night to pull off the sticky trick. Whoever did it finished the job before the first staffers arrived at 6:30 a.m.
It took the janitors hours to unseal each door.
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August 28th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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