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It doesn't work that way. Students in South Los Angeles, for instance, need a different curriculum than students in wealthy Cambridge. Students at the former still struggle with English, while the latter are scions of Harvard and MIT.


I bet students in Finland start off with a lower English level than students in South Los Angeles.


I bet students in South Los Angeles start off with a lower Finnish level than students in Finland.


Well, that's an easy bet to settle. 97 percent of Finns have either Finnish, Swedish, Russian or Estonian as native language and only 0.26 percent of Finns are native English speakers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland


It's as easy to settle as your bet. That was the point I was demonstrating with my sarcasm.


Sorry. Got lost on me :-)




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