Bureaucrats once again defy common sense

German student Ralf Bader graduated at the top of his class at a private high school in England. Education bureaucrats in Baden-Württemberg checked his file and found no exam demonstrating a proficency in English (or any other second language). The fact that he graduated from a British high school at the top of his class with straight A's was not enough to prove his English language proficiency, the officials claimed. Bader took them to court and won. So to simplify this for the bureaucrats, boy goes to school in foriegn country where they use a different language, he gets top marks, hence he probabaly speaks the language pretty well. Go ahead next time and recognize the graduation certificate. This story was in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.