Gary Glitter Causes Exam Controversy

It's well-known that Gary Glitter and children shouldn't mix. Glitter (real name Paul Francis Gadd) has caused some problems with kiddies again, but not the kind you'd think.

The Assessment And Qualifications Alliance (AQA), England's largest exam board, has recalled a music paper because it included Glitter's "I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)" in the suggested listening list on a Generatl Certificate Of Secondary Education (GCSE) music exam. GCSEs are British exams that high school students aged 14 to 16 take to prepare themselves for their A-levels, which prepare them for university over their last two years of high school.

This prompted anger from teachers' unions and individual instructors.

"He's a convicted paedophile jailed for sexually abusing kids," an unnamed teacher told The Sun newspaper. "It's completely inappropriate to recommend him as listening material."

The AQA later recalled the exam and will reissue it without the Glitter song in its listening section.

"AQA regrets any offence that the inclusion of a song by Gary Glitter in the 'suggested listening' section of this paper may have caused," the exam board said in a statement. "We are writing to all our call centres to recall the paper and issue replacements with reference to the song removed."

The 64-year-old Glitter is a convicted child molester and pedophile who was listed as a sex offender in Britain in the '90s after being convicted of downloading child pornography.

He moved to Cambodia and was deported to Vietnam after being involved in suspected child sexual abuse. It wasn't too long before he apparently got up to the same thing, and he was sentenced to three years behind bars for molesting two pre-teen girls at his rented villa in Vung Tau. He was released and deported back to England this year.

Rumours of the Giltter song being replaced by Michael Jackson's "Childhood (Theme From Free Willy 2)" are unconfirmed.