Focus (the German news magazine) brought up this story yesterday, which kinda surprised me in some ways.
Over the past year, if you've been around German society....the 'Fridays for the Future' school kid effort....to save the Earth and resolve the climate crisis....has attracted a lot of students.
To be blunt, these kids (typically between 12 and 18)....want to participate and be part of the effort to change things.
Well, Focus caught up with one fourteen year-old German girl, who is a spokesperson and putting in an enormous amount of personal time. She basically admitted over the past year....her grades have slipped from '1' to '4'.
To grasp the significance of the numbers? One would be comparable to an 'A' in the American system, and five would be regarded as an 'F' (failure).
So the kid is now cruising along with a D-level grade situation.
Getting into a German university situation in three years, with continued 4's? Maybe, but the odds are against you.
So you start thinking about this one single 14-year-old girl, and how this is probably occurring with over 10,000 German teens....pre-occupied with the save-the-Earth crisis, and not preparing for school projects or exams.
You then begin to wonder....what happens in two to three years as they would normally apply for a college seat and find that the college is looking at the grades and giving the kids with better grades a chance to attend, and these 'save-the-Earth' kids have to wait a year or two....to get a seat.
Is this creating a massive problem for the university system by 2022/2023? I might go and suggest that a crisis will occur out of this.
What do you do with thousands of kids who should have gone off to college but can't get a seat because of the grading system? Well....they'd go to some career as professional revolutionaries or permanent 'save-the-Earth' professionals.
Yeah....it's something that you'd shake your head over, and wonder how it can possibly correct itself.
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