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An author of the newspaper "New York Times" claims to be overwhelmed by letters from German schoolchildren - because of the high school diploma in English in North Rhine-Westphalia.
One of his columns was apparently part of the exam, tweeted the journalist Farhad Manjoo, visibly surprised on Friday evening.
Now he got a lot of messages.
He was either thanked for submitting the hoped-for good grade - or he was made responsible for “ruining” the rest of his life.
A discussion about passages of the text immediately ensued under the tweet.
Among other things, those affected complained that the article contained complicated vocabulary.
In some cases, specific questions were asked.
Some of the people affected became very direct: “You owe us an Abi brother”, writes one, while elsewhere people are asked, “Who let you into the Abi”.
The topic also evidently caused astonishment - one student asks himself how Manjoo got the idea to write a comment about single-family houses: "PAHAHAHA he was sitting there thinking" now I'm writing about houses "".
The columnist is also told “NRW ban”.
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The column from February 2020 had problematized the construction of single-family houses.
Students from North Rhine-Westphalia confirmed to the German Press Agency that the text was part of the exam on Friday.
In NRW 90,000 high school graduates are currently completing their degrees.