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i don't know how it is in english language, but language educaion here is going bad... Belgians are known for speaking at leas two or three languages fluently, definitely when they had some education, but nowadays most kids leaving schools here don't speak french very well, or at all. it's also been stated that students starting university didn't know their english good enough. it probably all has to do with this new idea in education: students shouldn't have gramar or spelling as seperate subjects, but have to read a text and get their grammar and spelling out of it.
as for our own language: critics say youth doesn't read anymore. in school, students are no longer obliged to read certain books, they sometimes have to read one (choosing from a list), but hardly anyone does, in these internet days. the stress in dutch classes is on reading and understanding business texts or newspapers. (i was lucky to have a few teachers who rebelled this: we read hamlet with the whole class and one of my english teachers had written a whole book on english short stories, novels, poems and special vocabulary for us. he isn't allowed to use it anymore because of the 'mix-everything-thing)
i can rant for a long time about how the education here is going bad but i won't bore you with it.
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