The Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning, Hugo de Jonge, has asked all municipalities to check if there is any type of floor in neighborhood schools that may be crumbling. Schools, where this is the case, are requested to conduct an investigation. In May, a piece of concrete above a classroom in Rotterdam came loose and fell onto a table. No one was present at the time. The minister suspects that several hundred schools have the same floor system, which was used from 1951 to 1973.
Dutch Legislator Hugo De Jonge introduced a housing bill so outrageous, it makes one wonder whether he got his political education from George Orwell s 1984.