Anybody who has worked with children with severe mental / learning disabilities knows that putting these kids in the same class rooms as non-disabled children means suffering for both groups. Inclusion is a nice sunshine and butterflies concept until a kid has spasms every couple classes, starts screaming or requires 60% of the teacher’s attention by themselves when those teachers simply can’t be educated on how to deal with ALL possible variations effectively. The other students often suffer disproportionally for it. Wheelchair access on the other hand, like blindness, is an obstacle schools can and should solve institutionally through building codes or technological assistance.
For weak German skills I personally think schools should offer additional classes but I don’t think it’s reasonable to not have the same testing standards from the “qualifying” level onwards, so grade 9, otherwise the whole idea of grades gets thrown out the window.
Yes sure Germany separates too early and locks people into one path too rigidly. But saying Germany is in the dark ages only makes sense if one accepts superiority (morally or otherwise) of the alternatives which I consider to be a lot less clear than the author.
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Anybody who has worked with children with severe mental / learning disabilities knows that putting these kids in the same class rooms as non-disabled children means suffering for both groups. Inclusion is a nice sunshine and butterflies concept until a kid has spasms every couple classes, starts screaming or requires 60% of the teacher’s attention by themselves when those teachers simply can’t be educated on how to deal with ALL possible variations effectively. The other students often suffer disproportionally for it. Wheelchair access on the other hand, like blindness, is an obstacle schools can and should solve institutionally through building codes or technological assistance.
For weak German skills I personally think schools should offer additional classes but I don’t think it’s reasonable to not have the same testing standards from the “qualifying” level onwards, so grade 9, otherwise the whole idea of grades gets thrown out the window.
Yes sure Germany separates too early and locks people into one path too rigidly. But saying Germany is in the dark ages only makes sense if one accepts superiority (morally or otherwise) of the alternatives which I consider to be a lot less clear than the author.