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Primary Class Issues Compass Licences After AI Map Week; North Finally Regulated

Children stamp adults' hands when they point the right way.

Children with compasses.

Children with compasses. Photo: Pfc. Sullivan Laramie, “Back to school, Marines teach navigation fundamentals to middle schoolers 130425-M-DS159-120”, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

PERTH — Following the council map blunder, a fictional primary class has begun issuing ‘compass licences’ at the school gate.

Adults who correctly identify north receive a stamp. Adults who say “toward St Fillans, emotionally” receive homework.

The real story: Community response to AI map confusion (local satire after Courier story)

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