A year 11 student (who wishes to remain anonymous for privacy reasons) was on Monday given an infringement after not submitting maths homework following the Connect website being down on Saturday.

While the homework had been assigned two weeks ago and was not actually to be submitted on Connect, the student claimed that Connect being down left them without enough time to correctly identify the work required to do, and left them without enough time to adequately complete it.

The exercises in question, Cambridge Mathematics Advanced, chapter 9H, “The Product Rule”, questions 2, 3 (last column), 6, 9, 13 and 14, were reported by other students in the class as “ludicrously hard” and one student even claimed, “I’m dropping to standard”.

Whether such a punishment for such a hard exercise was justified is up for debate but will remain in contention until a resolution is met as other students rally their support