One of the sixteen German states with the highest concentration of immigration members....is North Rhine Westphalia (NRW).
In a Focus article, they chatted on a issue which got some local attention.
As German schools started up the last month....it's become apparent that the state (NRW) has arranged for a couple of 'refugee schools' to come and exist....not just a class by itself....but an entire school here and there.
This has turned up as a political topic by some of the teachers. They suggest that this is going to create some ghetto-like school (with just migrants), and it doesn't allow for integration.
Into last year, it was done as a transitional program....but it's going to repeat, and that gives it more of a permanent nature.
The necessity here? It's been discussed on various occasions that you have a fair sum of kids who show up from school systems in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria....some rural....some urbanized. Some of the kids have been out of school for over a year. Some need major tutor help....not just with German language but other school topics. By kind of moving them into this centralized school....you could have tutors ready to sit down with certain kids who need extra help. In a regular school.....you won't find the tutors sitting there and ready to help you.
Preventing integration? You are in a balancing act.....trying to get a kid into a new school system that is fairly demanding....with a limit of resources to ensure the success of the kid.
I suspect you can go back to the 1980s and 1990s...finding various Turkish kids who were uprooted out of Turkey and brought into Germany....then given a brief orientation and expected to achieve success in the German school system. It was hit-and-miss.
On the list of 1,000 lessons learned? Yes, this is probably another of the problems that nationally...the government really didn't know what they were signing up to.
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