> “We have more children in schools who do not speak German at home any more. For elementary schools this is not a new challenge, but it is a growing one,” McElvany said.
Other countries with larger migrant populations and a growing trend towards multilingual cultures, like the Netherlands and Belgium, show comparable downward trends and, like Germany, larger-than-average discrepancies between the best- and worst-performing kids.
No wonder since there are barely any German children left
There should be a study that differentiates between native German speakers and others. Because of the large influx of immigrants who don’t speak the language it is hard to tell if the quality of teaching has gone down or if other factors are the cause for that.
It’s the Artikels
thanks merkel!
It’s almost as if immigration cannot fully compensate the decline in domestic birthrates, especially if the immigrants aren’t very well educated.
Maybe I’m being the devil’s advocate here but should you not expect a lower level of literacy in general if the language itself is more difficult than say, Spanish or English?
Kinda misleading to show german kids in the photo.
Thats what happens when you allow to form ghettos and whole districts inhabitet by imigrants of one nationality.
Theres no need or will to learn countrys lenguage for kids in places like that. It will harm those kids future possibilites and everybody looses in the end.
Not surprising. I went to the highest school form and my cousin to the lowest. We had like 10-15 % people who don’t have German as their native language at home, for him it was more like 10 % native speakers. Now parents of none native speakers are unable to help their children for many things and we need to create mechanisms that these people have the same opportunities independently of what their parents speak at home
Turns out mass migration actually makes the line go down.
Germany has similar immigration numbers than other European countries. What is different there?
I know that in Spain many immigrants come from Spanish speaking countries (like Mexico or Argentina) so to learn the local variant is a very low barrier of entry to education. In fact it is lower than from other EU countries. Even that any Latin-language makes it easier (Portuguese, French, Italian…). Is this the reason? Or are there more differences?
Same problem in Denmark
Elementary school in germany is a joke, atleast was on my time 1999-2004ish. Why do i need to lern sewing in school or what trees are named. They should more focus on german and math
The schools in Germany are shit. That’s the reason. Don’t blame the kids. Headline should be: German schools teach below average
Thanks Merkel
Haha
the spoken and written language is difficult 🤷🏼☺️
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Well, that’s because they are trying to read German and everyone knows German is a really difficult language.
Another day, another instance of r/europe fucking creaming itself at an anti immigration story
Because their parents are more focused on teaching their children Arabic script.
That’s unpossible!
We don’t have this problem in the Czech Republic because we have no immigrants 💪
If those kids could read, they’d be very upset.
Europe, get your birthrates up, you have the money to do it… Don’t rely on mass immigration
Wow.. judging by some comments, some people here are not very good at statistics..
Now we can insult them and they won’t even know.
The German government should close their education ministry and just listen to what all the specialists here are saying.
Maybe because teachers are biased and tend to send immigrant children to hauptschule and parents just don’t know better.
Must be all those Russians they let in 😕
its also way more common for children in first grade to know the german version of “son of a bitch” nowadays, the importance of language has shifted quite in the wrong direction…
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Who needs books when you have bratwurst and beer?
> “We have more children in schools who do not speak German at home any more. For elementary schools this is not a new challenge, but it is a growing one,” McElvany said.
Other countries with larger migrant populations and a growing trend towards multilingual cultures, like the Netherlands and Belgium, show comparable downward trends and, like Germany, larger-than-average discrepancies between the best- and worst-performing kids.
No wonder since there are barely any German children left
There should be a study that differentiates between native German speakers and others. Because of the large influx of immigrants who don’t speak the language it is hard to tell if the quality of teaching has gone down or if other factors are the cause for that.
It’s the Artikels
thanks merkel!
It’s almost as if immigration cannot fully compensate the decline in domestic birthrates, especially if the immigrants aren’t very well educated.
Maybe I’m being the devil’s advocate here but should you not expect a lower level of literacy in general if the language itself is more difficult than say, Spanish or English?
Kinda misleading to show german kids in the photo.
Thats what happens when you allow to form ghettos and whole districts inhabitet by imigrants of one nationality.
Theres no need or will to learn countrys lenguage for kids in places like that. It will harm those kids future possibilites and everybody looses in the end.
Not surprising. I went to the highest school form and my cousin to the lowest. We had like 10-15 % people who don’t have German as their native language at home, for him it was more like 10 % native speakers. Now parents of none native speakers are unable to help their children for many things and we need to create mechanisms that these people have the same opportunities independently of what their parents speak at home
Turns out mass migration actually makes the line go down.
Germany has similar immigration numbers than other European countries. What is different there?
I know that in Spain many immigrants come from Spanish speaking countries (like Mexico or Argentina) so to learn the local variant is a very low barrier of entry to education. In fact it is lower than from other EU countries. Even that any Latin-language makes it easier (Portuguese, French, Italian…). Is this the reason? Or are there more differences?
Same problem in Denmark
Elementary school in germany is a joke, atleast was on my time 1999-2004ish. Why do i need to lern sewing in school or what trees are named. They should more focus on german and math
The schools in Germany are shit. That’s the reason. Don’t blame the kids. Headline should be: German schools teach below average
Thanks Merkel
Haha
the spoken and written language is difficult 🤷🏼☺️
The orcs have captured the comment section
Well, that’s because they are trying to read German and everyone knows German is a really difficult language.
[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0UD40gk4c4U/maxresdefault.jpg](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0UD40gk4c4U/maxresdefault.jpg)
Another day, another instance of r/europe fucking creaming itself at an anti immigration story
Because their parents are more focused on teaching their children Arabic script.
That’s unpossible!
We don’t have this problem in the Czech Republic because we have no immigrants 💪
If those kids could read, they’d be very upset.
Europe, get your birthrates up, you have the money to do it… Don’t rely on mass immigration
Wow.. judging by some comments, some people here are not very good at statistics..
Now we can insult them and they won’t even know.
The German government should close their education ministry and just listen to what all the specialists here are saying.
Maybe because teachers are biased and tend to send immigrant children to hauptschule and parents just don’t know better.
Must be all those Russians they let in 😕
its also way more common for children in first grade to know the german version of “son of a bitch” nowadays, the importance of language has shifted quite in the wrong direction…
It is not germans being illiterate …