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22 June 2004

Life for Dutroux 

Not very surprisingly Marc Dutroux, AKA Another Devil Incarnate, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Arlon, Belgium earlier today. "Life" in Belgium means 30 years (but hey, it's longer than here, where it means 21 years, out in 16, possibly sooner due to good behaviour. It's ridiculous, really.) He also got another 10 years of probation after that. Means he'll be a free man by the time he's in his mid-eighties. However, I have a feeling he may not live that long.

Our Minister of Education, Kristin Clemet, has dropped her loony-act for a moment and actually made a sensible move today. She has suggested (meaning it probably won't pass as a bill, but it was a nice thought) that those wanting to become teachers will have to get at least a C in both Norwegian and Maths from high school/sixth form college before even being considered for admission into teacher's college. Good thing, too, since our school system is a disgrace. For some wicked reason it's been built upon "survival of the least-fittest" for decades, and we're all crap at maths, for instance. It's always been about helping ONLY those who struggle with learning (which doesn't show, really, with all those claiming to be dyslexic nowadays; seems there's suddenly been an explosion of them), the rest of us have been left to our own devices and I for one remember being bored beyond belief all through school, not having any real challenges until University, by which time I was far behind when it came to learning methods etc. But alas, since it actually means sense to suggest something like what Clemet's done now, it'll probably just disappear down the drain sometime in the near future. Tut tut.

Current track: Madness - Nightboat to Cairo

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