This little guy’s all set to go, but I don’t know how safe his ride will be. My guess is he’ll have a hot back from the motor on the back of that skate board, and he’ll fall off before the ride is over. Ouch!
Genius 8 year old passes law school entrance exam
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.”
Clothespins aren’t just for hanging clothes?
Isn’t this terrible?
A substitute kindergarten teacher in Amanda, Ohio, was so fed up as she listened to four overly-chatty boys. So she silenced them by using clothespins on their mouths.
Ruth Ann Stoneburner was permanently suspended after she admitted to attaching the spring-type clothespins on the kids’ upper or lower lips.
All their kids have the same birthday
You’ve heard of families who’s children’s names all start with the same letter, and the occasional family where a child has the same birth date as the mother or father, but what about a family who’s children were all born on the same day in different years?
Jenna and William Cotton of Marysville have an easy time remembering the birthday of each of their children. All of their three children have been born on October 2nd. The latest addition to the family was little Kayla who was born on Tuesday Oct 2nd. Her brothers Ayden Cotton and Logan Cotton were born on Oct 2nd 2003 and October 2nd 2006 respectively.
Based on that history, the parents said they had a feeling their baby daughter would come a couple of days past her Sept. 30 due date. Sure enough, Jenna Cotton, 23, began having contractions early Tuesday, hours before a planned birthday party for the boys.
She had a doctor’s appointment scheduled later in the day and hung in for the party. Ayden, the 4-year-old, wanted to know if his new baby sister would make the festivities, Jenna Cotton said.
“He has been really excited about her coming,” she said. “He kept asking when she was going to come out.”
He wouldn’t have to wait long. His mother’s doctor sent her to a hospital, where 7-pound, 8-ounce Kayla was born at 7:07 p.m. Tuesday.
The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million, said Bill Notz, a statistics professor at Ohio State University.
The Cottons don’t plan to roll the dice on a fourth Oct. 2 baby, saying that’s it for them, as far as having children.