Quote:DHBirr wrote:Given that a couple of years ago there was a major scandal because a school compromised the middle school final exams... that's probably actually true of most schools. Seriously, the response of the national Educational Inspection was to rather grumpily note that since said exams are organised on the national level this meant that for every compromised subject every student of the level they were compromised on had to redo the examination. And they meant every student that met the criteria. Including the ones in the far off corners of the country.Quote:Hazard wrote:From which I gather that school in the Netherlands is about education, rather than about making money for the school, which seems to me to be what Dartz describes, or about making children "feel good about themselves" (those who don't run afoul of bullying that the teacher ignores), as appears to be the curriculum in far too many U.S. schools these days.
Wait, wouldn't accomodation, food and equipment be covered by the tuition fees in case of such schools? I know that textbooks aren't covered in the Netherlands, but at least here there's a large and well organised (as in, organised by the education establishment itself) used books market. You can literally rent your books for a year, although you are required to take proper care of them in return.
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Considering that one dictionary definition of "carry on" is to "behave or speak in a foolish, excited, or improper manner," the designers of that famous poster, "Keep Calm and Carry On," need to make up their flippin' minds!
As there were two dozen exams stolen... yeah. A lot of very unhappy students, teachers and parents. They were very lucky that statistical analysis pointed out that the mess hadn't meaningfully propagated beyond the school and as such there was no need to force anyone else to redo the exams.