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Comment Re:Fundamentals (Score 3, Informative) 213

Indeed! It was horrendously bad in the 1990s in the Netherlands. I have a friend who was graduating from 'teaching school' then. She sent me emails riddled with spelling errors and crooked sentences. Amazingly she got her degree no problem. Later, in the early 2000s the govenment finally found out that something had to be done and they settled for a mandatory writing and math test for everyone who wanted to teach 4 - 12 year olds. The majority of the people who took those tests failed miserably. Things have improved a lot since then. My friend also improved and I get messages from her with normal Dutch sentences and well-spelled words. She even teaches dyslectic kids how to read and write now.

Comment Re:People (Score 1) 481

Me too. I don't really understand why your comment is marked Funny. People eat chimpanzees too, and I've never read about the ethical problems with that except for the fact that eating endangered species is not such a good idea.

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