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Originally Posted by Happy Times
Up here everybody that can, and want to, get employed or re-educated.
We really need educated imigrants in the future.
I didnt know that Germany has problems in education..:hmm:
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Ever heared of PISA...? You Fins are at the top - in the first study, Germany was near - or even at - the bottom. In Germany, people talked of the "Pisa-shock".
And yes, it is true, companies desperately complain about lacking knowledge and lacking fundamental general education, and enormous deficits in writing, reading and basic maths. Many companies want to raise their own future employees - but do not find sufficiently educated candidates, leaving tens of thousands of possible jobs unmanned, partially for YEARS. On the othe rhand, the labour market is still crowded with low-skilled badly trained youngsters.
So, the education systejm is serioulsy porked, and and too many political interests have a word in influencing the misery - generally for the worse.
I finished school in the mid-80s (decembre 85), and like many people in my age group, I consider us to be one of the last relatively lucky and - by majoirty - well served school-generation. After that age, several reforms were launched, and much dogmatism (always a great evil in Germany since the late 60s) influenced the quality of general education for the worse. I currently know three school teachers, all of them for Gymnasium, which is the highest of the three school types we have after elementary school. All of them would like to turn back the time and choose another job. My grandfather was teacher, and a girlfriend of my mother - both died of anger and frustration (in the form of cancer). Things are the worst in the lowest of the three school types, of course, "Hauptschule". Students here know from the very beginning that after school they have close to nil chances to ever make it into an untroubled life. Violance, stubborness, gangs and frustration are the result - wich feeds back on the motivation of the teachers. It's a vicious circle, leading into a communal disease all society is suffering from.