WELT had a decent piece this AM....talking over the success-rate for migrants on the integration course (language/history/law). The passing-rate is not anything that the government wants to brag about.
So I'll offer my observations....having done the language and history/government classes.....with the migrants.
First, German itself is not easy or simple. Just getting to a point where you grasp the use of die, der or das (the-situation) is a mess.
Second, Germans want to assume that these adults in the classes who say they have a general education level...are at the same level as a German. That's simply not true. I'd suggest that if you did test folks....roughly half would be assessed at the German 8th grade level or better....the rest would be less than that.
Third, for the history/government stuff....I found that a majority (probably over two-thirds)...have a marginal or non-existent knowledge of anything that occurred prior to WW II....anywhere in the world (even their own countries). This was true for South American, Middle-Eastern, and African. Asians were less so.
Fourth, for the one-month integration history/government business.....they gave a bare essentials course. I admit it was a great booklet, and designed to 'dump' as much information as possible. But for a 5-hour daily course (four days a week)....it was intense, and probably more than what most people could handle.
Fifth, class design is for twenty people. It might be better if it was a one-instructor to ten students but they simply don't have the funding to cover that type of situation.
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