I only have one question – would these schools be closed and would people be out of work if there were not so many immigrant children?
We have to be prepared to leave our country. A silent invasion is happening. In 20 years we will be minority. Government is weak. And when governments are weak the people give power to people with extrem measures (ELAM). I hope this is not the case.
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Teachers have trouble teaching them because they don’t know greek. ( Not all of them) it’s a waste of the kids’ time. The government needs to teach them first the language and then the rest
I purposely sent my kids to Agios Antonios primary school in Limassol as I wanted them to integrate gently into a school that had a GC minority and large immigrant/TC component, so they wouldn’t be dead last in language proficiency. In preparation, we supplemented them with daily private Greek lessons the entire summer. My kids ended up near the top of the class with only 3 months of lessons from scratch and the most common complaint we heard from the GC parents there was that the school was only playing the role of babysitter and neither the parents nor their kids there had any desire of integrating. We left that year and put the kids into a school with a 90%+ GC student body and our kids are doing fine.
In many ways Cyprus benefits from multi-culturalism. I think we should be happy to have kids from different cultural backgrounds in our schools. However, if the government thinks that the declining Cypriot birthrate is a crisis then maybe they should take a good hard look at their policies.
I’ve seen first hand from my sister how difficult it is for the average Cypriot family. I’ve seen her have to be separated from her children when they were only 5 months because of the abysmal maternity leave policy here (not even to mention the joke that is paternity leave). I’ve seen her and her husband struggle to make ends meet due to the rising COL to which the government gives them no support because the maximum family income for government assistance is so low. I’ve seen them struggle to find reasonable daycare options because everything shuts at 4 and they work til 6 (and all daycares all full anyway).
Why would anyone want kids in this society? I’m honestly sick and tired of hearing government officials lament the declining birthrate while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing to help families.
did they really expect us to have kids? SIR I AM ALMOST HOMELESS!
Children who do not have Greek as their native language and will study at public schools should first pass a Greek language test to show that their Greek language skills are at least close to native.
Those who do not pass should do a Greek foundation course, either during the summer months, or if necessary for a whole year (and then re-take the Greek test, and if they do not pass to do another year of Greek)
Tι σημαίνει κυπριακό παιδί; Και πριν να έρτουν οι λαθρομετανάστες το 1/5 ήταν διασταύρωση με ξένους που προφανώς ούτε στρατό δεν επήαιναν, και είχαν και οφελήματα στις προεισαγωγικές απαλλαγές από μαθήματα κτλ και το άλλο 1/5 ήταν ξένοι. Δεν ήθελε πολύ να πάσειν κάτω από το μισό οι κύπριοι. Αδιαφορώ πάντως, πρόβλημα των εκπαιδευτικών που πιάνουν παχουλούς μισθούς. Σιγά μην τους λυπηθώ.
The benefits of having Anastasiadis as a president for a decade.
Then make having kids affordable you fucking snakes.
We are a multicultural society yet turkey still sells the fairytale of the evil Greek Cypriots
The article is stupid I’m sure there are more than 22 primary schools in Nicosia. The statistics depend on the location of the school.
Also who cares. It’s benefitial to interact with other cultures especially at a young age.
Schools tho need to help foreign kids learn Greek as then they’ll learn nothing and stay behind
I’m Russian, my wife is Ukrainian. My kid now is in a private Greek kindergarten (because of proper working hours compare to municipal).
We have an absolute max mix possible. Few kids in the kindergarten:
* Estonian with Indian
* Thai with German-speaking Greek (both are from Germany)
* Greek and some African (unfortunately, I got not change to ask where she from).
What they all have in common? They speak Greek among themselves. They have it as natives.
And yes, my kid will go to the Greek public school. Is it counted as foreigner or not (she has a Cypriot citizenship)?
It’s easy to complain about immigration. We don’t want to, or cannot afford to, have children and don’t want to do a lot of the hard, labor-intensive, work so we import people to do it. People who absolutely will have children. Or bring their children.
And then we complain about high prices for everything, but in reality we sell all our land and over-inflated prices to even more foreigners so we can make a quick buck. What cheap land is left is taken by the cheap labour because they will live 10 people in one apartment to make it financially while we won’t.
In the end we can’t afford to have more than 1 child, or maybe even any, and when we do, those children complain that to rent a 1 bedroom apartment costs more than their entire monthly salary. There is no better example of total and utter self-destruction than modern society.
Εκάμαμεν την Κύπρο εμπάτε σκύλοι αλέστε. Σε λλίο οι Κυπραίοι εν να είμαστεν η μειονότητα στην ίδια μας τη χώρα. Αντί να διούν επιδόματα του κόσμου να κάμνει κοπελλούθκια διούν επιδόματα στον κάθε λαθρομετανάστη.
Τζαι μετά διεροτούμεστεν γιατί έχουμεν τόσο πολύ έγκλημα πλέον τζαι γιατί ο κόσμος φοάτε να φκέννει που έσσω του τες νύχτες. Πιέννετε παλιά Λευκωσία τζαι μετράτε μου πόσους Κυπραίους εν να δείτε. Αν η κατάσταση εν έτσι τζαι στα σχολεία ΕΚΑΤΣΑΜΕΝ ΠΑΝΩ.
Oh good, I thought I had to go outside to yell at Filipinos in order to tickle my racist fueled outrage prostate, but thanks to cyprus mail I can do that from the comfort of my own home!
There’s already a post about this. Like my comment under that post suggests, the original report which Cyprus Mail is reporting on is blatant propaganda and obfuscating crucial numbers and facts.
clickbait title. 22 schools don’t tell shit to justify their title lol
Pay us a living wage and we’ll have kids you scoundrels.
Ill share abit of my philosophy.I don’t wanna have kids,im gonna live this life just for me even if people think that’s egoistic of me.
Then in the most i live another 50 years and then ill die and become nothing again just like i was before i was born . I wish good luck to the poor children that get borned in this shithole of excistance.
Lessen immigration and promote healthy conditions to raise a family then for cypriots! Not so difficult.
We ve been hearing this for so many years now. It’s alarmist bs
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I can only say one word… unfortunately
I only have one question – would these schools be closed and would people be out of work if there were not so many immigrant children?
We have to be prepared to leave our country. A silent invasion is happening. In 20 years we will be minority. Government is weak. And when governments are weak the people give power to people with extrem measures (ELAM). I hope this is not the case.
[deleted]
Teachers have trouble teaching them because they don’t know greek. ( Not all of them) it’s a waste of the kids’ time. The government needs to teach them first the language and then the rest
I purposely sent my kids to Agios Antonios primary school in Limassol as I wanted them to integrate gently into a school that had a GC minority and large immigrant/TC component, so they wouldn’t be dead last in language proficiency. In preparation, we supplemented them with daily private Greek lessons the entire summer. My kids ended up near the top of the class with only 3 months of lessons from scratch and the most common complaint we heard from the GC parents there was that the school was only playing the role of babysitter and neither the parents nor their kids there had any desire of integrating. We left that year and put the kids into a school with a 90%+ GC student body and our kids are doing fine.
In many ways Cyprus benefits from multi-culturalism. I think we should be happy to have kids from different cultural backgrounds in our schools. However, if the government thinks that the declining Cypriot birthrate is a crisis then maybe they should take a good hard look at their policies.
I’ve seen first hand from my sister how difficult it is for the average Cypriot family. I’ve seen her have to be separated from her children when they were only 5 months because of the abysmal maternity leave policy here (not even to mention the joke that is paternity leave). I’ve seen her and her husband struggle to make ends meet due to the rising COL to which the government gives them no support because the maximum family income for government assistance is so low. I’ve seen them struggle to find reasonable daycare options because everything shuts at 4 and they work til 6 (and all daycares all full anyway).
Why would anyone want kids in this society? I’m honestly sick and tired of hearing government officials lament the declining birthrate while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing to help families.
did they really expect us to have kids? SIR I AM ALMOST HOMELESS!
Children who do not have Greek as their native language and will study at public schools should first pass a Greek language test to show that their Greek language skills are at least close to native.
Those who do not pass should do a Greek foundation course, either during the summer months, or if necessary for a whole year (and then re-take the Greek test, and if they do not pass to do another year of Greek)
Tι σημαίνει κυπριακό παιδί; Και πριν να έρτουν οι λαθρομετανάστες το 1/5 ήταν διασταύρωση με ξένους που προφανώς ούτε στρατό δεν επήαιναν, και είχαν και οφελήματα στις προεισαγωγικές απαλλαγές από μαθήματα κτλ και το άλλο 1/5 ήταν ξένοι. Δεν ήθελε πολύ να πάσειν κάτω από το μισό οι κύπριοι. Αδιαφορώ πάντως, πρόβλημα των εκπαιδευτικών που πιάνουν παχουλούς μισθούς. Σιγά μην τους λυπηθώ.
The benefits of having Anastasiadis as a president for a decade.
Then make having kids affordable you fucking snakes.
We are a multicultural society yet turkey still sells the fairytale of the evil Greek Cypriots
The article is stupid I’m sure there are more than 22 primary schools in Nicosia. The statistics depend on the location of the school.
Also who cares. It’s benefitial to interact with other cultures especially at a young age.
Schools tho need to help foreign kids learn Greek as then they’ll learn nothing and stay behind
I’m Russian, my wife is Ukrainian. My kid now is in a private Greek kindergarten (because of proper working hours compare to municipal).
We have an absolute max mix possible. Few kids in the kindergarten:
* Estonian with Indian
* Thai with German-speaking Greek (both are from Germany)
* Greek and some African (unfortunately, I got not change to ask where she from).
What they all have in common? They speak Greek among themselves. They have it as natives.
And yes, my kid will go to the Greek public school. Is it counted as foreigner or not (she has a Cypriot citizenship)?
It’s easy to complain about immigration. We don’t want to, or cannot afford to, have children and don’t want to do a lot of the hard, labor-intensive, work so we import people to do it. People who absolutely will have children. Or bring their children.
And then we complain about high prices for everything, but in reality we sell all our land and over-inflated prices to even more foreigners so we can make a quick buck. What cheap land is left is taken by the cheap labour because they will live 10 people in one apartment to make it financially while we won’t.
In the end we can’t afford to have more than 1 child, or maybe even any, and when we do, those children complain that to rent a 1 bedroom apartment costs more than their entire monthly salary. There is no better example of total and utter self-destruction than modern society.
Εκάμαμεν την Κύπρο εμπάτε σκύλοι αλέστε. Σε λλίο οι Κυπραίοι εν να είμαστεν η μειονότητα στην ίδια μας τη χώρα. Αντί να διούν επιδόματα του κόσμου να κάμνει κοπελλούθκια διούν επιδόματα στον κάθε λαθρομετανάστη.
Τζαι μετά διεροτούμεστεν γιατί έχουμεν τόσο πολύ έγκλημα πλέον τζαι γιατί ο κόσμος φοάτε να φκέννει που έσσω του τες νύχτες. Πιέννετε παλιά Λευκωσία τζαι μετράτε μου πόσους Κυπραίους εν να δείτε. Αν η κατάσταση εν έτσι τζαι στα σχολεία ΕΚΑΤΣΑΜΕΝ ΠΑΝΩ.
Oh good, I thought I had to go outside to yell at Filipinos in order to tickle my racist fueled outrage prostate, but thanks to cyprus mail I can do that from the comfort of my own home!
There’s already a post about this. Like my comment under that post suggests, the original report which Cyprus Mail is reporting on is blatant propaganda and obfuscating crucial numbers and facts.
clickbait title. 22 schools don’t tell shit to justify their title lol
Pay us a living wage and we’ll have kids you scoundrels.
Ill share abit of my philosophy.I don’t wanna have kids,im gonna live this life just for me even if people think that’s egoistic of me.
Then in the most i live another 50 years and then ill die and become nothing again just like i was before i was born . I wish good luck to the poor children that get borned in this shithole of excistance.
Lessen immigration and promote healthy conditions to raise a family then for cypriots! Not so difficult.
We ve been hearing this for so many years now. It’s alarmist bs