About two months ago, a new book came out in Germany.....written by Thilo Sarrazin. For about twenty years, Sarrazin was a SPD Party member.....fairly well known for business management....and eventually becoming a auditor for the Deutsche Bahn (the railway system) and later for a short period ....serving on the Board for Deutsche Bundesbank.
He reached a point where he started talking over the immigration, social welfare (it's shortcomings) and the failures of Islamic Germans. He took positions that the SPD Party couldn't accept and they more or less....forced him out of the party.
This new book? The title is "Feindliche Übernahme: Wie der Islam den Fortschritt behindert und die Gesellschaft bedroht" or in English: "Hostile takeover – how Islam impairs progress and threatens society."
My wife picked up the audio version of the book. So I've gleaned over bits and pieces of it.
One of the shortcomings which Sarrazin gets into....is the educational path for the migrant families. Since 2013, you have thousands of Syrian, Iraqi, and Middle Eastern families that came in, received visas to stay, and their kids....for better or worse, were put into the German school system.
What Sarrazin took from various interviews and discussions with educational workers....is that the vast majority of the kids are on a failure path. The schools out of Syria and Iraq....for the most part, did what they were capable of doing. But when the families departed and the kids arrived in Germany....the attitude was that the kid last wrapped up the sixth-grade....so he ought to start the seventh-grade in the German system.
Well...as the experts explained....the kids weren't prepared for that level. Administrators and the authorities who would have gone to some resolution....weren't capable of saying this in public. So the general trend, since 2013....has been to just pretend the system works.....if the kid fails the year, you just let nature take it's place and the kid repeats the year.
These parents confused by this class failure? I would imagine they are standing there and in some denial and unable to understand this whole German education path.
The younger kids? They are entering into the 1st or 2nd grade, and maybe proceeding ahead. The brighter kids? They make up for the tougher path and find tutors or smart kids to latch onto....to survive each school year.
But what Sarrazin points out is that you are producing some 15 and 16 year old kids who are supposed to go onto apprentice positions, and they just aren't capable of handling the requirements. What happens now? You end up shuffling the kids around and making excuses over why they can't handle apprentice schooling. The administrators and politicians can say they aren't at fault, which is basically true. But resolving this and moving on? It'll never happen.
I would imagine....somewhere down the line....maybe 2030, some national discussion will take place over why you have 200,000 young adults of a migrant background....stacked up into some welfare situation, and massive hostility over failed education. If Sarrazin is still alive....he'll probably be writing another book over this failure.
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