BEVAR GRUPPEEKSAMEN!

That's what I heard 45,000 teenagers shouting as they demonstrated in a protest march to Radhuspladsen (Town Hall Square). Apparently, these kiddies are angry at their government for deciding to cancel group examinations at Danish universities, a peculiar practice whereby students work together on a group project for their final examination, but are graded individually based on the team effort. I can't tell you why these group exams were started in the first place, but they're over now, and the students couldn't be more pissed, or emo. I hadn't seen so many well-worn Chuck Taylors, Iron Maiden tees, and dudes wearing chicks' pants since the Death Cab for Hootie concert I attended in February (an indie rock tribute to Hootie and the Blowfish). It was good to see civil disobedience operating in a healthy democracy, but exams? 45,000 kids take off from school and fill the streets because somebody's talking about taking away their group exams? I mean, it's not like anyone published a cartoon of the exam saying, "STOP STOP, we have run out of pencils!" or a caricature of the exam with a bomb in its turban. I thought the Danes had gotten it down by now - you wait for the insensitive drawings, and then you protest. It's fucking simple. Now what are you gonna when the government steps it up, huh? When they announce that not only are the group exams off the table, but also the practice of group grading during group massage therapy, along with the between-class ice cream breaks and daily goody bags regardless of whose birthday it is, or if it's anyone's birthday at all... what do you do then? You're shit outta luck, that's what. SOL, as we say in the USA. United States of America. Yeah.