Parliament - CDU: Compulsory daycare for five-year-olds with no knowledge of German
In view of the poor results in the Pisa school test, the CDU in the Lower Saxony state parliament is calling for compulsory daycare for all five-year-olds with limited knowledge of German. "Anyone who can't speak proper German has no place in the first year of elementary school. They need intensive language support beforehand because otherwise they will be lost," said CDU MP Christian Fühner on Wednesday.
Fühner also criticized the fact that the state government wants to make it easier for schools to dispense with grades and merge subjects. "Performance orientation is part of education," he said.
Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg emphasized that language tests for children before they start school already exist today. Language support in this age group is also standard, said the Green politician. However, she conceded that this could still be improved. However, it is not just schools and daycare centers that are required to teach the language, but also the children's families and society as a whole.
Overall, schools need more freedom to be able to do justice to individual pupils, said Hamburg. The so-called Freiräume process is also behind the plan to enable more individualized performance reports than the usual numerical grades.
From the 2024/25 school year, the state government wants to increase the number of lessons at elementary school in order to strengthen pupils' basic skills. In addition, a social index is to be introduced next year in order to provide targeted support for schools with special needs. Hamburg criticized the fact that educational success is still too often dependent on the respective parental home.
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- The CDU in the State Parliament of Lower Saxony suggests implementing compulsory daycare for five-year-olds who lack a solid knowledge of German, hoping to improve their language skills before starting school in Hamburg.
- Christian Fühner, a CDU MP, emphasized the importance of performance orientation in education and criticized plans to make it easier for schools in Hanover to avoid assigning grades and merging subjects.
- Julia Willie, the Minister of Education in Hamburg, acknowledged that language support for five-year-olds is crucial for those with limited German skills but suggested that families, schools, and society as a whole have a role to play in enhancing children's language abilities.
- The so-called Freiräume process aims to provide schools with more flexibility to adjust to the needs of individual pupils, and this would help create more personalized performance reports instead of just relying on numerical grades.
- As part of efforts to improve basic skills in elementary schools, the state government in Lower Saxony plans to increase the number of lessons beginning in the 2024/25 school year and introduce a social index in the following year to offer targeted support to schools with special needs, addressing concerns that educational success continues to depend largely on children's backgrounds.
Source: www.stern.de
