Education - Piwarz sees schools at breaking point due to migration
Saxony's Minister of Culture Christian Piwarz (CDU) believes that schools in the state are reaching their limits due to the high number of children and young people with foreign roots. Integration work in a class can only be achieved up to a proportion of around 30 percent of pupils with a migration background, he said in an interview with the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" newspaper on Wednesday. "That's what all the experts say, and that's what our concept is based on. And if the proportion is higher - and it is significantly higher at quite a few schools in Saxony - it is precisely this integration effort on our part that is not successful."
Piwarz also attributed Germany's poor performance in the current Pisa study to this. "Pupils entering first grade in Saxony show development and performance differences of more than two years. This shows that something is going wrong." The number of pupils from other countries has tripled in less than ten years. "This is not leaving the education system unscathed."
Saxony had already announced that some of the unaccompanied refugee minors would no longer be taught in regular classes in order to ease the burden on the school system. According to Piwarz, the concept is to be implemented from the 2024/2025 school year. It will hardly be possible to lead the young refugees to graduation in the two or three remaining years of their compulsory schooling. "Instead, we have to make sure that we teach them German first and foremost and ensure that they can start an apprenticeship."
Read also:
- A clan member is punished here
- Traffic lawyer warns: Don't talk to the police!
- Will he be convicted as Jutta's murderer after 37 years?
- He also wanted to kill his cousin
- In response to the increasing number of children with foreign roots in Saxony's schools, the state's Minister of Culture, Christian Piwarz from the CDU, has stated that integration efforts can only be successful up to approximately 30% of pupils with a migration background.
- The "Leipziger Volkszeitung" reported that Piwarz believes the high number of children with foreign roots in Saxony's schools is causing the education system to reach its limits, contributing to poor performance in the Pisa study.
- Christian Piwarz announced that some unaccompanied refugee minors in Saxony will no longer be taught in regular classes starting from the 2024/2025 school year, with the aim of teaching them German and helping them secure an apprenticeship instead.
- The Leipziger Volkszeitung is a news publication based in Saxony's city of Leipzig, where it covers local and regional news, including the challenges faced by Saxony's education system in dealing with the growing number of refugees.
Source: www.stern.de
