MINI: Caesar Mixup

Incase you missed yesterday's big headline 'QLD schools study the wrong Caesar'

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
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(00:49):
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(01:10):
It is now tomorrow night. Yesterday, when I was in
my Uber. Heading home from the airport, I was looking
at news stories that we might talk about today's show,
and I just saw the headline rio that said Queensland
schools study the wrong Caesar. This is an unbelievable story
about these poor Year twelve students. And heart goes out

(01:31):
to all the mums and dads and the kids doing
Year twelve in the It's a big year for the
kids and us parents are sort of just walking alongside
it with them. This is the worst possible story you need.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Mate, This is barely believable. It's like something from the Onion.
So there were six, sorry eight schools in Queensland in
the year twelfth history exam. For the past years they've
been studying Augustus Caesar.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So Julius Caesar was Augustus's great uncle. Oh okay, yes,
good knowledge. I didn't know when he was assassinated in
his will. I believe that he adopted because he was
very as like a mentor to Augustus.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And so now this year they've switched it. Instead of
doing Augustus Caesar, now they're focusing on Julius Caesar. But
eight of these schools in Queensland either didn't get the
memo or there's been some sort of just misunderstanding with
the two.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Seasons exam was about the other Caesar.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
The exam is about Julius Caesar, and like, well not so.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Just to try and break that down, that's like you
study Prince Harry for a year and you go, there's
a bloody question about King Charles. Oh, you've been studying
Taylor swith lyrics and it's Travis Kelse's playbook. But these
are two different things, two different people.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And can you imagine how do you tell the students that, like,
how do you sit them down and be like, okay.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Two days time? It's everything. They work so hard. They
really believe that it's gonna it's the currency to unlock
in the rest of her life, and it's really easy
for grown ups. You decided to go, oh, it's okay.
I sawt the Education minister said, look, it's not the
end of the world. That isn't going to help me.
It does feel this to them, and that can't be
really no, no, it's really really unfair. The other thing

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that really caught my mind is like, wait, they're doing
Roman history in this country. That's the biggest story for me.
Let's star let's star get Let's still get lost in
the weeds or the wrong season. That's a shadow that
Queensland is looking at Roman history. That's good though.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
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