Criticizing a Dutch pre-university examination textual content a couple of pulpit, the author Kluun is offended

Writers, college students and fogeys are criticizing a textual content from the Dutch pre-university closing examination, which was held on Wednesday. It is in regards to the textual content Quick Meals for Younger Readers: The Dangerous Promotion of Pulp Fiction in Training. The author Kluun launches a horrible assault on his co-author Mel Wallis de Vries. She is thought to be essentially the most profitable youngsters’s thriller writer, with over half one million books offered.

“How dare you, in a pre-university closing examination textual content, shoot down a author who’s spoiled by younger readers,” he writes on Instagram. “Who acquired entire herds of younger folks, like my daughters and tens of 1000’s of different youngsters, studying.”

Wallis de Vries himself has additionally responded. She says to mock that the federal government needed her not too long ago as a result of she has offered too many books. She additionally posted a brief video of herself subsequent to a stack of her books with the textual content above: “If you find yourself talked about for the primary time in a Dutch closing examination … After which learn the questions.”

Each Kluun and Wallis de Vries obtain help from colleagues and readers. One in every of them is former winner of ‘The Younger Jury’ Margje Woodrow. “What I really feel very unhappy now could be that my daughter needed to take this check,” she writes.

Dad and mom additionally reward Wallis de Vries as a result of her youngsters began to learn. Another person says that her daughter, who has handed the pre-university schooling examination, is dismissed as ignoramus by the textual content. A instructor writes that he’s joyful that college students have began studying due to the author.

It’s a model of an opinion piece from of Volkskrant from 2021, written by literature professor Yra van Dijk and Dutch instructor Marie-José Klaver. They criticized the studying promotion marketing campaign ‘The Younger Jury’, wherein college students aged 12 to 16 can select a shortlist from which a winner can be chosen. They are saying that it’s a trigger for concern that the youngsters’s selection is then on the forefront of a backed marketing campaign.

In line with Van Dijk and Klaver, that record is made with out steerage, route or pre-selection by educators or lecturers. “It is like placing youngsters into the grocery store and asking them to purchase what they like after which pushing what they arrive out to the youngsters of the nation to all, beneath the guise of ‘wholesome consuming’.”

They write about her books that the sample is at all times the identical: girls are tortured, humiliated and infrequently murdered and intercourse is nearly at all times needed and violent. “You possibly can’t develop lovely readers with ugly texts like that. Younger readers principally learn with data and recognition,” stated Van Dijk and Klaver.

The VWO examination additionally contains vital solutions to the piece from 2021 on which the scholars have been requested questions. They need to summarize the arguments.