Teachers Furious At Leaked Colouring-In Exam Paper

The blank image, as students would have seen…

…and the coloured image, leaked yesterday

A ‘rogue marker’ has been blamed for posting a completed colouring-in exam paper online.

The paper – due to have been sat in three days time – is the country’s first to systematically test students’ ability to colour-in blank pictures.  It was to be a trial run for proposed additions to the National Curriculum in 2018.

‘This has wrecked several months’ hard work by our students’ said one teacher who preferred to remain anonymous.

‘Recently, there has been tremendous interest in colouring-in – among adults and children – as it has proven benefits for hand/eye co-ordination.  Its therapeutic value is also now being fully-realised by psychiatrists’.

Police have been called in to investigate by the Department for Education, and initial reports suggest that the person who leaked the documents was a disillusioned former professor at one of the UK’s most prestigious universities.

The scheme has already been dogged by controversy, with critics saying that any marking or scoring would be meaningless as there is no ‘right’ answer to what is a purely subjective and creative exercise.   In response, supporters have cited evidence from clinical studies in The Netherlands which suggest that certain abnormal patterns of behaviour among young children (such as depicting polar bears as yellow or green) can be a possible ‘red flag’ for criminal activity in later life.