If you say so. I do not parrot the offical proganda, that I am certainly guilty of and that is what makes me unwelcomed.
The policy in SPD run states as well as the development of performance/skill indices over the past ten years speak a clear language, and what it says is no compliment. The growing performance deficits get hidden by manipulating the notes system, and the verbally glossing it. Itr even happens that the political administration orders for a wanted minimum note avergae in classes and so teachers have no other choice than to rate exams better than the work deserves.
And this I know from teachers.
Add to this a growing numerical deficit in teachers due to demographic changes, an extremely far left leaning union, and school buildings in most shabby states due to lacking financial funds for renovations, plus a growing ideological indoctrination that replaces solid basic education in reading, writing, math and a basic understanding in science and history.
I base not only on what I read in the media, but what I got in live feedback from mentioned teachers, who are family members of former friends of mine from studying times. My grandfather was teacher, too, but this just as an anecdote. I was at a very good and prestigious school in West Berlin, back then we had a very strong focus on natural sciences and math, three quarterss of the teachers were men, and many teacher were very, very good, we liked them and respected them. No dancing course. No school orchestra. Plenty of voluntary "AGs" (work groups, hobby groups) mostly focussing on sciences again, astronomy, microscopy, practical excursions. Now they have: three quarters of the teachers are women. Five school orchestras, several dance courses, for some years they had no history courses and only in two class ranks biology until they were forced by superior authoprities to bring these back into the schedule, and in math and sciences students can do only the basic minimums in hours that the government demands as minimums. The focus and priorities have clearly shifted, and the teaching has been clearly "feminised".
And it is Berlin.
Across Germany, the performance indices have dropped in recent 30 years. The rate of early leavers from school is climbing. The quota of students not able to correctly read and write or do basic maths, is climbingg. Where Germany has improved in international comparisons, this is explained by that the others to which you compare them dropped even further, and these usually all are in the West, not in Asia.
At the same time universities complain about that new students are lacking more and more in most profound skills and abilities to start studying, starting with understanding written questions, handwriting with correct spelling and grammar, or doing simple mathematical calculations like addition, subtraction, rule of three or simple fractions.
When you compare that decline to how the kids get almost militarily drilled in asian states (I do not say that that is the ideal, I only point out the obvious differences), then you know how the chances of German students internationally are, and how their chances are to sustain the German economy in the future. We know since long where the preferances of most students are: Germans tend to favour soft and social subjects and humanities, Germanistik, Psychologie
, VWL, BWL. Not engineering. Not so much Physics. not so much IT. Chemistry. That is all so -
so cold-hearted. And difficult.
In Asia it is more or less the other way around.
Add to this the massive brain drain Germany has and that politicians try to hide at all cost from public awareness. But there is a significant net drain.
Add to it the probably highest electricity prices in the West. Add to it the highest tax burden in global comparison. All this contributes to the attrarctiveness - or lack of - in global economic competition. The rotting of traffic infrastructure. Bridges.
Germany produces too little students of the kind it needs, too many of those that end as receivers of subventions and social wellfare, it drives away too many skilled or highly qualified people or parents with young families - and all the time scares away guest workers for example in the IT sector or healthcare that after a year are so pissed by Germany that they leave early again, and then we import more migration than we cannot afford and digest and most of these we either do not let work or they do not want to work and so the vast majority of that migration ends up as a net movemet into the social wellfare system.
I think that are enough reasons why I formulated ironically in the beginning. But irony, even sarcasm, does not mean that I am not right. It indicates my level of frustration, and anger.