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what caught my eye today
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24 Feb 2010 Wed 07:43 pm |
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I´m very sure the ´facts´ in that file are not correct. I know from earlier years they say that the literacy rate in my country is 99%. But...... how about the 1.5 million illiterates on a population of around 16.4 million?
who is illiterate in Holland Trudy? is it immigrants from some countries? where did you get the 1.5 million number from? just curious.
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| 4511. |
24 Feb 2010 Wed 07:54 pm |
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who is illiterate in Holland Trudy? is it immigrants from some countries? where did you get the 1.5 million number from? just curious.
The numbers were published a few years ago (in 2006 I think) by a special committee - president of it is Princess Laurentine. About 0.5 million are immigrants, the other million are people born in my country. They are sometimes what we call ´functional literate´ meaning they can write their names and a few common, often used words but they are not able to read the timetable of a bus, the advertisements in the supermarket, the information leaflet of medication let alone a newspaper. They can´t fill in forms or write a letter. In my classes are quite a few illiterate immigrants and there have also natives applied for courses.
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24 Feb 2010 Wed 08:42 pm |
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For the ones always in a rush - try Titanic ( the 5 sec version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY
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24 Feb 2010 Wed 09:11 pm |
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The numbers were published a few years ago (in 2006 I think) by a special committee - president of it is Princess Laurentine. About 0.5 million are immigrants, the other million are people born in my country. They are sometimes what we call ´functional literate´ meaning they can write their names and a few common, often used words but they are not able to read the timetable of a bus, the advertisements in the supermarket, the information leaflet of medication let alone a newspaper. They can´t fill in forms or write a letter. In my classes are quite a few illiterate immigrants and there have also natives applied for courses.
wow! so they didn´t go to school?
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24 Feb 2010 Wed 09:12 pm |
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For the ones always in a rush - try Titanic ( the 5 sec version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY
hahah lol
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24 Feb 2010 Wed 09:15 pm |
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wow! so they didn´t go to school?
Yes, they did, at least most of them. Several (stupid) reasons they are still illiterate: bad teachers (the ignoring type because a child is difficult to handle), often ill and not in class, parents working at a circus or fair so they change schools a lot and some indeed ditched classes (and apparently no-one cared).
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24 Feb 2010 Wed 11:25 pm |
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Yes, they did, at least most of them. Several (stupid) reasons they are still illiterate: bad teachers (the ignoring type because a child is difficult to handle), often ill and not in class, parents working at a circus or fair so they change schools a lot and some indeed ditched classes (and apparently no-one cared).
Often they are also from a generation where people weren´t constantly watching for learning disabilities. When I child is a bit slow in class now, we don´t call them stupid, but we do a dyslexia test, for example.... but already 20 years ago this was different.
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25 Feb 2010 Thu 01:40 pm |
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Sex Education Manual from the 1960´s
Two comments: - (1) I thought the 60s was the era of free love and experimentation and (2) that transvestite hanging out the washing is wearing a really bad wig.
Link is here - click on the pic to enlarge it (bet you´re all excited now!  ) (oops no - I enlarged it already!  )
Edited (2/25/2010) by lady in red
[pic is big enough]
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26 Feb 2010 Fri 12:01 am |
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Sex Education Manual from the 1960´s
Two comments: - (1) I thought the 60s was the era of free love and experimentation and (2) that transvestite hanging out the washing is wearing a really bad wig.
whatever happened to "lie still and think aout the Queen?" 
Reminds me of American Home Economics Textbook from the ´50s
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26 Feb 2010 Fri 12:31 am |
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as far as i know queen Victoria was naughty in bed,this English softness and hypocrisy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edited (2/26/2010) by ptaszek
[former colour was striking!!!!!!!!]
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17 Mar 2010 Wed 04:10 pm |
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dog washing machine invented by Japanese. you place a dog into micro-wave looking box and push the button. the dog is washed and dried!
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