RBB (public TV in Berlin) brought up this interesting topic today on 'home-schooling'.
A lot of German teens are preparing in various ways for the spring Abitur exams. It's now come to their mind that 'home-school' (via online work and video classrooms)....simply isn't giving you a complete idea or grasp about certain subjects. So.....fear is now building up....the spring tests might be a big failure.
Group work....lab experiments....library research? None existent for the most part.
There's a suggestion going around....if tests have areas which you marginally covered or were just skipped by video-classes? Disallow the question entirely.
Even if you marginally well on the test, and proceed onto university.....will that first six months work out well for you? I would have some doubts about this crowd wrapping up things.....testing.....then proceeding on a German university.
I would imagine if you brought in retired university professors....they'd have a laugh over the home-schooling solution, and that it simply didn't fulfill the needs of the student. But finding any other solution? Don't count on it.
All of this is leaving a mess for the 2022/2023, and probably some additional year added to German universities because their incoming students weren't that prepared.
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