On Wed, 09 Jan 2002 03:03:13 +0000, Bastiaan Edelman wrote: > Hi Sam and Flip
> I'am sorry for Flip but in Holland (Europe?) we just do not listen to > politicians... when they speak they lie or say nothing usefull. > So don't try to learn Dutch... you will end in 'double Dutch'. > Bastiaan I am told that about 30 years ago there used to live in my neck of the woods a few very recluse mountain families which would speak a corrupted Dutch dialect known as "Home Dutch". They are the descendants of some early Dutch settlers who flocked to the region in the 1700s. These families never started trying to learn English until they started sending their children to public school just a few decades ago. As the parents started taking their children down to the schools for enrollment the teachers were absolutely astonished to learn that there were several very large families which had been living in the nearby mountains for more than two centuries and they had never before tried to learn English. In several areas of Virginia there are many children who do not receive any schooling except at home. The law does not require parents to send their children to any school. Neither does the law require a parent to meet any educational qualifications for teaching their children at home. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
