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The German education system is fluid. When students did go through Hauptschule (8 years) and want to continue, they can still attend Realschule (9 years) or Gymnasium (13 years) and vice versa. I know plenty of people who have done just that. My own brother did that. He went through Hauptschule, then did his Realschul exams, and after going through the bi-educational system of vocational training to become a Master printer, he could have either opened his own printing shop and trained others OR attended print-affine university courses (such as Design, Book Sciences, Teaching at vocation schools etc.). A friend of his went on to do Abitur (Gymnasium/high school diploma) despite having spent her first years in Hauptschule… Also, the recommendations, the teachers/school give are not binding. I did have a recommendation for Realschule, but my parents gave me a trial period at Gymnasium. I was not the best of students, but I never had to repeat a year, and, after doing an AuPair year and vocational training myself, I did attend university and there really (and finally) enjoyed academic work. I even excelled. I did my Master‘s, then my doctorate, and have been teaching in the German university for almost 25 years…
Hauptschule sind 9 Jahre (4 Jahre Grund und 5 Jahre Hauptschule), Realschule sind 10 Jahre (4+6). 😉 Hauptschule is 9 years (4 years of primary school and 5 years of secondary school), Realschule is 10 years (4+6).
In most part of Germany all children go together in the Grundschule for class 1-4 (Primarstufe) before they go in different schoolforms 1.Hauptschule class 5-10 2.Realschule class 5-10 or 3. Gymnasium class 5-13. The children which leave school after class 10 started a dual training job= 3 days Training the job in a firm + 2 days training in school to learn the Theorie of the job, or go 5 days a week to a business colleg for 3 years. Class 5-10 is called Sekundarstufe 1, class11-13 called Sekundarstufe 2. You can chance betreten the different ways
@Dwayne`s Lens , @Attirbful ,thank you, good explanation , that is the answer for @13:50!
I "fell" through the system, because I had health problems when I was in "Grundschule".. I got placed in "Hauptschule" since I missed a lot of time in "Grundschule" because of sickness...
15 years later, I have a Diploma in Music and Arts, because I took other chances and ways, and ended up at a private University (all paid for, because I aced some tests, so they sponsored it.)...
Thing I am trying to say is: If you are able and willing to learn and have a goal, the schooling system here is able and willing to support.
@@jameyspielt exactly! I dare say my brother probably was smarter than I was (I am saying was as he is gone already). He had the recommendation for Gymnasium, but there was severely mobbed - by a teacher-, and, being a rather sensitive kid, he shut down completely and simply didn‘t work any more. My mother was never notified he didn’t do his homework etc. A lot of things were simply screwed up. That was in the early seventies. He dropped out and attended Hauptschule (although he actually should have excelled at Gymnasium and studied physics; he totally could have gotten an academic degree, I am sure), where he was bored to death to be honest. He only later picked up a drive again and was excellently supported by the teachers so that they even taught him in hospital where he was after a bad motorcycle crash and had him take his exams for Mittlere Reife there, as well… I am - to this day - pissed at that mobbing teacher in Gymnasium and immensely grateful to the other teachers at Hauptschule!
Hauptschule used to be 8 years some time ago...@@Arch_Angelus
You can also study after completing vocational training or a master's degree. This is also financially supported by the state. The US and UK are like a river (only in one direction), Germany like a river delta.
Good comparison. Maybe the reason I like it this much is because the Netherlands is basically one big river delta ;o).
The Dutch education system is comparable with the German one. I just don't understand how you can have a one size fits all education system. We need all kinds of educations as a society. Some are more study oriented, others are more practical. Some are scientific, others are cultural. We as humans must stop thinking everybody needs university level studies, and these are the only "skills" of importance.
@@KeesBoons exactly
keep in mind that already Karl der Grosse (from idiots wrongly named 'Charlemagne') did some important progress for a better for a better schooled society (not for everyone at first but structural extreme important for a wider mass) when he gathered in Aachen/Germany the best experts in all fields to make things better: that were the Karolingian Renaissances! Those also caused then also the 'upper-lower-case' writing (at first only 'upper' or one size writing was common), consequently also that a sentence starts with an upper case letter. and many more things ....
The German school system is not rigid, but actually quite flexible and permeable. One example, my brother: he had a really hard time at school at the beginning with adhs and dyslexia. He went to Hauptschule and was very well supported (for the time) and did well. Then he went to Realschule and graduated from there, after which he did a 3 year apprenticeship (with vocational school) and then a master craftsman's certificate (with school ). With that, he got a technical college entrance qualification and studied business administration in a dual study program and got a diploma. He spent the whole time After Realschule in companies and was able to put everything he learned into practice. He then started his own business.
He did all of this only because he wanted to and the entire system was designed to support him.
There are endless opportunities to progress and learn.
There are problems in the education system and it's far from perfect, but it's not bad either.
Woah i nearly wrote the same about a friend of mine, who ended up fighting his dyslexia till it's barely noticable and is now an engineer (Bautechnik i think?) and very sought after due to his work experience. While i went to a Gymnasium and ended up unhappy and the threw everything away to work at an art supplies store. I only earn a fraction compared to what my friend earns, but i think we are equally happy cause we both ended up in places that make us happy: Friend in a quite elite field and makes tons of money to spend his electronic gadgets and hobbies (one of those people who build their gaming computers themselves, y'know) and i am working all day long in a store, surrounded by the things i love (and get an employee discount on lol), having likeminded customers to whom i sell the things i love and have conversations about the things i love.
@@olgahein4384 Thank you for your story!
I think that unfortunately the dependence of school success on the status of the parents is still far too high in Germany. We urgently need to improve this. Children from families with little education need more support. I think there can never be enough of commitment.
Tip: My mother-in-law is a volunteer "reading grandma" at the elementary school here, which is very valuable. I have decided that I will continue to do this when I retire. I like working with children anyway - and - more importantly - they like working with me. 🙂
@@BernhardGiner I can't say anything about status. Both him and me were born in the UDSSR and moved to Germany as toddler around 1990, as children of 'returners' (USSR citizens with german root/ancestry who got kicked out). My father still works as a truck driver and my mom in a mechanic factory, assembly line. His father is also a truck driver (same company back then, how we became friends) and his mom was a cleaning lady.
Both poor. Both with parents with bad german skills. Both learned everything on our own, cause our parents could not navigate us through much, even though they tried.
I would say we are both quite good examples that family background, be it low education, low income or migration background are just petty excuses. From the parents mostly, for different reasons, and later on from the 'children' themselves, cause they really don't put in the extra effort like my friend did. Complaining about the government and your own oh so disadvantagous past circumstances is the easy way out.
@@olgahein4384 I think you misunderstood me. I am calling for better/more support for children and families. What would you suggest?
Yes, emigration or immigration is a good example, thank you for mentioning that and sharing your story with us. So you had the "status" of immigrants and I think you and your family had to struggle a lot. Much more than the people who were already living here - like me. Think back: What was helpful for you personally and for you as a family, what was a hindrance and what would you have wanted from individuals or the state? (I'm really interested in this. I have first and second generation immigrants from different regions of the world in my own family and my circle of friends, so I know that everyone's experience is same but different.)
To explain my general point of view, I will go into a bit of detail: At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a saying among German emigrants to USA: "Erste Generation tot, zweite Generation Not, dritte Generation Brot" (first generation dead, second generation hardship, third generation bread.)That sounds like a law of nature, but it isn't. We in Germany have shortened this period so that the first generation can live here without existential hardship and, at best, get on and build something of their own. The second generation, the children of the first, should have the chance to reach the "bread" stage at the latest. Of course, that doesn't always work - people are people - but the better it works, the more we all benefit from it.
The point is, anyone who comes here who doesn't know the language or the country and has no or few established social networks - will probably have a hard time in many areas. People are probably much more likely to rely on help and support - be it from family, neighbors, friends or the state. I think, what we, as people and as a state, can do is show humanity and offer support where it is needed. So that people can "put down roots" here and hopefully feel comfortable. That helps everyone the most and most of all the most precious - their kids.
The worst option of all would be to actively exclude the newcomers, to discriminate against them, to treat them with ignorance and hostility, to oppress them and then to incite people against each other. That is certainly harmful to everyone.
What you say is the problem when you only have 2 (UK and in the US) really important parties: left or right, black and white. But life is colorful with many shades of grey. Politically, the UK is mimicking the US more and more: Labour isn't really Labour anymore, is it?
18:00 The German Bundestag has its own TH-cam channel with many explanatory videos on procedures, rights and obligations of the parties involved and the like. (Also nicely summarized in playlists.) www.youtube.com/@bundestag
Thinking in a more or less 2 party system in the UK, I can understand your thoughts about coalitions, but remember Germany does not have a 2 party system. Working together with different opinions is the most basic principle of a democracy, or even a society, otherwise do you really have a democracy?
I think our school system is great. Elementary school teachers make their recommendations not only on the basis of the kids' grades but also how mature they are and their willingness to learn and apply themselves. The goal is to help each kid be successful. It's no fun being in a school that you are not fit for and where you only get bad grades. Some kids are just late starters and they can advance through the school system later on, they will not be stuck in the initially assigned school. I've seen it both ways, kids that performed poorly in elementary school because of attention deficit issues later rallied and went on to become an engineer. Another schoolmate of mine who was the teacher's pet in elementary school was sent to the Gymnasium (highest school level) where she failed miserably and had to be taken off after the first year to attend Realschule instead. I feel that not all kids are made for academics and not everybody must be pushed to go to university. So, if you are more likely to go into vocational training, why spend time studying Latin, Greek, French etc., do poetry interpretations, learn advanced maths and so on? They need a concise education that gets them out of school and into an apprenticeship by 16. In Germany, many people with vocational training that go into trades such as plumber, electrician are making a very good living, often out-earning people with bachelor degrees. I think one way to improve the system is to ensure in pre-school and elementary school that all kids regardless of their social and linguistic backgrounds are getting the same education so that the school trajectory is not impeded simply by language barriers or parents that are limited in being able to support their kids in school.
There were 53 parties in the last federal election.
There are currently 10 parties in the Bundestag: SPD with 207 members, CDU/CSU with 195, Alliance 90/The Greens with118, FDP 91, AfD with 77, The Left Group with 28, BSW Group with 10, and non-affiliated are 7.
The next Bundestag will look completely different.
The government is currently made up of the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and the FDP.
in the schoolsystem teachers decide where you would be put best in an early stage. but during schooling and develepoment of the students there is still the chance of uprising into a higher system. i myself started at realschule but got the recommendation for gymnasium. so i could've switched if i wanted to.
As others have said, the school system is flexible -- it accommodates "late bloomers" pretty well. As for learning problems -- a friend's daughter suffered brain damage through a stupid accident when she was just two years old. Tests showed that she was actually "gifted", but with some cognitive issues and especially motor/coordination impairments, that unfortunately went right out the window. However, lots of therapies (paid for by insurance) and dedicated parents got her to the point where she could attend regular school -- with a personal aide, who helped her with everything from navigating hallways and staircases to actually writing tests for her ... in a separate room, to her dictation.
At age 10, she first was put into the least-academic school branch, but they soon recognized that she was better than that, so after the first year, she was "upgraded" to the next-higher stratum. She had to repeat the year to catch up to the curriculum, but did pretty well overall and is now working as a civil servant for the city's sports and recreation department.
Who knows how far she could have gone had her accident not happened ...
On the other hand, kids who do well academically in 4th grade (when separation happens) may not do so going forward, for whatever reason. It's no problem for them to switch schools "downwards", where less emphasis on academics may suit them better. And they still have the option of studying more later in life.
Well, we also got a saying for being organized, "Ordnung ist das halbe Leben" translating to "organization is half of the life" meaning life is much easier when you're well organized.
When i was in school we used to say "Ordnung ist das halbe Leben - doch wer will schon so früh sterben" (organization/order is half of the life - but who wants to die so early'. Indicating that it means you have to spend half of your lifetime to organize your life and/or to keep order in your life, instead of living it.
Germany was after the foll of the Roman Empire (caused inside and outside by Germanic tribes which after the crash of the Western Roman Empire) most of the time the leading European power (with some short interruptions). At first was it with the Netherlands/Belgium the core region of the Franks (Austrasia) with Aachen/Germany as center and kind of 'capital'. It was also the city where where the Karolingian Renaissances took place and where Karl der Grosse (wrongly named 'Charlemagne' - thats a WRONG name which just misleads) was also buried. After that it was the base of the Holy Roman Empire (which was till the 14. century just named 'Roman Empire' and/or 'Christian Empire' as continuation of the classic Roman Empire). The HRE stretched from Northern Italy/Rome over Switzerland/Austria through Germany (Luxemburg, East France, Belgium, Netherlands as well as Bohemia/Czech, parts of Poland to the Baltics were part of this Empire). There were two significant maritime subEmpires (both created by more autonomous cities): the Hanseatic League on one side, on the other Venice (and others). Those maritime Highways were connected via land and water (mostly the Rhein/Rhine river) which all together created the backbone of most of the medieval information service and trade. ALL relevant Europen rainessances happened within this realm. HRE leader led the crusades! (Richard Lionheard/Loewenherz e.g. under Barbarossa). Most innovations happened here. Most cities and castles were created here. And back then till today it also has most industry and it is for exactly those reasons also the most populated region of Europe (the Blue Banana). It was also no coincidence that from Luther to Marx (Socialism) to Hitler (nationalSocialism) most ideologies got here intellectualized. It is also not a coincidence that Central Europe in general was the birthplace of one branch of European cultures: Proto-Germanic in Northern Germany, Proto-Celtic in Southern Germany/Austria (Hallstatt) and in the Eastern Central Europe neighbors Proto-Slavic (Poland etc.)and Proto-Italic (Hungary - which later moved then over to 'Italy'). This has to do with the geographical interface position. The other important branch was in today Anatolia (Proto-Greek, Proto-Etruscan etc). The HRE/Central Europe and later the German Empire/Germany/Central Europe (HRE countries included) were and are also today the driving power in Europe - and are still the biggest and wealthiest economy realm (the eastern central ones have to catch up again - still suffering from the left wing/anticapitalist/socialist/communist dictatorship like times but are culturally very likeminded to Germany, Netherlands, Austria etc...) .... btw. also the US-Dollar has its origins in the Holy Roman Empire (=> Joachimsthaler, named after a valley (Tal) in Bohemia where a wealthy sllver mine caused also a strong currency from there which became the prototype for the Dollar - also its name => Taler => Dollar) ...
2:20 That's misrepresented a little. The issue is that we're comparing apples to oranges. Social contributions, namely a bunch of mandatory insurances, are not the same as taxes. You just have to get insured but it's not a tax and most people in OECD countries get insured one way or the other whether they have to or not. In terms of income tax, we're more or less at (iirc slightly below) the average for Western Europe. That said, our healthcare system is the second most expensive in the world (after the US, by quite a bit) per capita, so that certainly does cost us. Still, it's not 50%, more like 40%. 22-ish percent of that is taxes, iirc. Keep in mind that you're not paying the full tax rate (that you'd see on official sheets) on every euro you make. That's the tax rate for the last euro you earned. Every euro before that is taxed progressively less. It's a silly way to think about this, you could just give each number a total tax rate and be done with it but I guess it's our dear German bureaucracy, so it has to be complicated..
13:00 How does it work? Not very well. It might be one of the reasons why social mobility is so low in Germany (it takes a lot of generations, on average, to move from lower class to upper class income). It might not be perfectly comparable but I've at least read about an experiment in the US where they would mix up classes of schools from posh and less well off areas and instead of their grades averaging out, the less well off children just caught up to the others. The problem was that if you segregate everyone and in the case of German schools do so with the implication that some children are just born stupid (it's not like they don't realise that), that's absolutely going to have an effect on their psyche. And people are largely shaped by their surroundings. Imagine going to school without much hope for a good future and being surrounded by people feeling the same. Also, there seems to be a bias by ethnicity when it comes to teachers' recommendations for the type of school, so there's that.
And yeah, the thing about having more ability for vocational training is bs. Better grades, better school is all it is. That other line is just people being euphemistic.
The universities are good. The vocational training system is good. The schools are terrible.
After teaching at a high school in Australia, where students are not separated (by those “branches” but public and private schools) I can see pros and cons of the German school system. After all, what really defines children’s educational path the most is how much the parents care about their results. Here and there.
It's not only taxes that get deducted before the money hits your account here. It's health insurance, retirement contributions, long-term care insurance, unemployment insurance and, if you're member of a christian church that may collect church tax, that's deducted, too. And after all of that, you have about 50% left. But you have paid off a lot of stuff already.
Our school system is permeable, too. A kid might be deemed not fit enough (yet) for more complex education, but if they were just late bloomers, they can switch to the more complex school later on, too. The other way round is possible too, though - if a kid finds itself overwhelmed with the workload on a Gymnasium, it can switch to a Realschule, Hauptschule or Gesamtschule.
"Left" and "right" for SPD (Social-democratic Party of Deutschland) and CDU (Christian Democratic Union) can only come from an American (or citizen of another dual-party political system). Yes, the SPD was once the labor-force party, and the CDU is a conservative party. But neither of them are far left or far right. By now, they are the biggest blobs pretty much in the middle of the political spectrum, together with the Greens (Bündnis 90/die Grünen) and the Liberals (FDP). There are more left-wing and more right-wing parties, and they are usually condemned into the opposition, because if a conservative German can't stand something, it's definitely extremism. :P
And yes, if I have to ask someone else for money, I have done something wrong and feel guilty. It's really the case.
Dwayne, please react to German politics or to the political system of Germany!
The part about the unions is so funny if you think about the latest railway strikes!😊
you are the nicest british guy i know so far ❤ friendly greetings from Frankfurt 😊
When it comes to the parties the thing is that what counts in first place is the benefit of the country. The question is just should we do it the left or the right way.
Regarding educational system: While what other commenters point out (fluidity of the system) is true in theory, your analysis is pretty on point! The early separation of students leaves behind many kids and puts them in a path for lower income jobs, together with some social stigma that comes with it. While the "Realschule" (mid-tier school) might still give you decent chances at well paying jobs, the "Hauptschule" (lowest tier) basically guarantees you having a low paying job.
YES, you can still work on your education and get better degrees if you put in the work after regular school, and there ARE programs for that, but still - the early separation is not good for the majority of kids that don't end up in the "Top" tier schools (which grant you access to university).
In general, the German school system is actually pretty outdated, it more or less dates back to early 20th century, structurally. There still is a focus on just "skill checking" kids during exams, giving grades accordingly, but no system on giving special aid to kids who grade sub par, or give advanced education to kids who score above average. It's in its core pretty archaic, UK and other countries have much more (socially) advanced systems that aim to make MANY succeed.
The entire German school system in it's core is still aimed at producing exactly the "work horses" Germany's industry needs, which makes it successfull industry wise, but VERY divisive socially.
One of the biggest downsides of the system (as many studies show) is that kids coming from lower education / lower income hoseholds have A MUCH harder time to achieve a higher education (and better paid jobs in the end) than kids coming from already wealthy / highly educated households.
First mistake: Social contributions (= obligatory insurances) are not the same as taxes, neither by collection nor by usage nor by decision-making authorities.
Second mistake: German workers do NOT pay near to 50% of their gross income in taxes. The average income is a bit over 50,000 Euro, which means about 21% income tax and about the same in obligatory health, unemployment and pension insurances. The average earner (who usually earns less than the average income) pays about 14% in taxes and a bit over 20% to obligatory social insurances.
Third: Exuberant bureaucracy is a big problem in Germany, but even if many media try to exaggerate the problem, it does not much differ from many other European countries. And since I'm an entrepreneur myself, I can say the state bureaucracy causes less problems for me as in the obligatory membership in the chamber of commerce or the bureaucracy by banks and by telecom and internet corporations. (This may be different for other types of business however, but in my experience most small businesses have less problems in Germany than say medium-sized businesses, except for bookkeeping if you can't afford to outsource it to a tax advisor.) It does however not help that many politicians try to "solve" the problem of bureaucracy by promoting digitalization, which does not reduce bureaucracy in the slightest, but rather increase it - it can however hide it from many people for the most time.
Most German states introduced obligatory school for children up to the age of 14 during the late 19th century, but rich farmers sometimes "ransomed" their daughters by supplying the poor teachers with food and other products. (Most primary school teachers in the countryside could not feed a family from their salary alone, but got also a plot of not-so-good land from the village.) A great-great-grandmother of mine could not read, but she was very good in calculating. Because of her dowry she could afford a missal bound with gold, but often she did hold it upside-down in church.
8:50 The cartel thin back in the start of the 20th century did not play out well in the end. Therefore the economic reforms after WW II forbade such cartels.
9:15 A bit abridged. What first went wrong was the Great Depression, which hit Germany especially hard after the reparations for WW I had already weakened the economy, and then the austerity policy by the last democratic government (there are some similarities to the current austerity ideology of the conservative and liberal parties), which encouraged the sudden rise of far-right parties, biggest amongst them the Nazis, supported by some anti-democratic plutocrats and industrial magnates. Many of the noble prize winners left the country (voluntarily or forced), the economy became centrally planned in many sectors, and so on. The war was only the final straw, destroying reputation (what was still left of it), infrastructure and workforce.
10:20 That was mainly the result of the economic reforms after WW II, based on ordoliberalism, implemented by the minister of economics Ludwig Erhard, whose consultants and staff coined the term "Soziale Marktwirtschaft" (social market economy) for their model. The original inventors however described it more as "competition-oriented economy", protecting the market mechanisms against market power: against players gaining to much power and wealth, while at the same time implementing some redistribution policies to allow for more social mobility, among other things giving new competitors the means to enter the markets. The core of those reforms however was in the late 1970s and the 1980s partly revised, leading to economic decline until the early 2000s. But the idea of "social partnership" between employers and trade unions survived in most sectors, which led to less aggressive labour disputes than in other countries. This is supported by a law stating that in some sectors or in corporations above a certain size (nearly) half of the seats in the supervisory board are reserved for the delegates of the trade union(s).
Another point still alive is the status of the small-size and mid-size companies as competitive drivers of innovation.
11:50 This dividing has its origins back in the 19th century and causes many (not only social, but also economical) problems. However the system is not as impervious as portrayed - first there is always the option to change tracks during school. Second there are special upper stage schools for people who took the more "vocational" tracks, which lead to qualification for university study (but it can take them a year or two more to get there). Third there are also options for getting an academic degree after some years in a vocational career.
One growing problem with the system is that more and more kids are corralled in the "academic" track by their parents, and especially kids from either wealthy or an academic parents are often forced to take that track, supported by additional private lessons and other means. At the same time many crafts complain they get often only the kids who did not so well in school or - coming from a "migration background" - have still difficulties with the German language. And those will also have difficulties to get their bachelor's or master's degree in their craft. (German craftsmanship had their own bachelor/master system long before the Bologna reforms which introduced it at universities.)
17:10 For the most time in the past the Liberals were "tipping the scales" - since 1961 they chose the ruling party by either forming a coalition with the conservatives or the social democrats. There was only a short phase of a "Big coalition" between conservatives and social democrats 1966-1969. That role changed a bit after the Green party gained weight. In 1998 the coalition between conservatives and liberals was replaced by a coalition between Greens and social democrats, which was again replaced in 2005 by the second "big coalition" (first Merkel administration), in 2009 by a conservative-liberal coalition and in 2013 again by a "big coalition" (3rd Merkel administration, not so big anymore in terms of seats in the parliament).
Education fules innovation.
I think Germany is good in specialising. Make one thing and make it the best. In my hometown here in Bavaria we have one company just making seat belts- wich goes in very many car manifactures all the world knows. And another Company make the cables for ropeways all around the world. That‘s the key for success
To sum up my educational experience: 4 years elementary school, 2 years "Gesamtschule" (all three types [Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium] in one school), where the major subjects (Math, German, English, maybe 1 or 2 more?!?) where parted into 2 types: A and B. So, if you are in the "A" course in all subjects and have good grades, it is very likely that you will be recommended for "Gymnasium" (high school type).
If you did poorly in one or more A courses, you switch to B. Depending on which courses you end up after the two years and what grades you have, the parents will receive a recommendation for a school type.
I ended up in Gymnasium up to class 11 and took my "Mittlere Reife" degree (same as if I went to "Realschule") and canceled the last 2 years.
So imho it's a very flexible and open structure with chances for all who really wanna go all the way. For me it was the wrong time, too much happend in my life, but I could still return to evening school get my degrees to be able to study. All chances for all types of learners ;)
And btw, no idea if this all happens this way still today. It's a few years since I left school ^^
The german school system appears very stiffling explained like that, and for some it is - if you ignore all the other possibilities. For example, i aced in elementary and went to a Gymnasium (the highest school education, giving you access to university if successfull). But here's the thing: My parents chose a school that specialises in foreign languages (especially business lingo) and science. Cause that's where they wanted me to go. Totally ignoring the fact that i was a full on artistic creative child, which the teachers tried to tell my parents. 2 years in this school, and at a parents-students conference my main teacher tried to convince my parents to transfer me to 'themed' school, themed around art and writing. My parents (immigrants btw) went there, talked to the principal and were told they'd be happy to take me, especially in the art departement, but warned them i would most likely have to repeat a year du to being behind a lot after 2 years. THAT was for my parents the only reason to not even tell me about that possibility, cause repeating a grade was back then the greatest shame a child could bring to their parents. Even though they knew i was unhappy in that school - i ended up repeating twice and not going to university, i am now working at an art supplies store and am happier than ever, my parents are not.
And then i have a friend who is dyslexic. He literally could not write till the age of 10, until he got diagnosed. Then his parents spent a lot of time to get him help to learn to read and write, especially the later he still struggling with. He ended up in the lowest school system education. Sad thing is, that all adults knew exactly that he was a highly intelligent child, but not being to write properly cost him his grades in all subject except sports and stuff. Well, he barely finished his education, started an apprenticeship as a car mechanic and started to work as such.
Guess what, he not only took every evening course for his dyslexia he could find, in correspondence with his employer he took every work related additional training to improve his skills and market value, after 5 years he qualified to get a higher school degree (middle level) and did study for the tests while still working full time. And so on.
Long story short, at the age of 35 there is barely any trace of his dyslexia left, he is an Engineer with a masters degree from a southern german university with nearly 15 years of hands on experience in ALL areas of that work field and has just recently bought a little villa in Teneriffe for his vacation time.
Bottom line is, that separation might fail some children for different reasons, but there are always ways around it or to build on every foundation AFTER graduating school. And just because a child is especially bright, it's by far not a guaratee for a great career, specially cause that is not everyones happiness (i still think i could barely be happier if i were sent to art school and became a professional artist, cause i did professional works for some years and i was rarely happy with that - but now i work all day long surrounded by art supplies that make me happy, working with and for people with shared interests and passions and who are often even weirder than me and that makes me even happier).
The German school system is fluid. If it turns out that the teachers' recommendations and the parents choices for one of the three branches was not the right one for a child, there is always the possibility to switch to a different branch. In general the split is between year 4 and year 5 and there should be a reevaluation at the end of year 7, where the teachers take a look at the students' success in the specific branch. Were they overwhelmed a lot of the time? Were they not challenged enough? You can switch then and also later on.
The goal is to not leave any child behind and give them the best education they can handle.
There is also the foundation set in kindergarten as well. Children there are under the care of kindergarten teachers, that observe and document each childs development process. Often times issues, that would make succeeding in elementary school harder, are already seen then and parents can then take measures to help their kids. There is a whole system set up from the government, to support families in getting the help their children need.
There is currently a push for an equal minimum standard in early childcare across the country (childcare and education is actually a state matter, so there are differences between all the states), so all the children in Germany have and equal start.
The video numbers showcased are just *"what IF"* while the *actual* true number is:
*Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax):*
*Spain:* 1,727.86 € & *Germany:* 2,783.84 €
> Which is a different of *+61.1 %*
> Keep in mind that *"Cost of living"* is arround *33.4%* more expensive in Germany than Spain.
> This means, the 61.1% is reduced down to *+27,7%* after all, at average on the German side.
> So at average, a german worker has +27,7% more _"Free Money"_ available.
Greetings from Germany! I just wanna say: Yes. I personally hate being in dept! I've grown up tought "Gibt nicht mehr aus als du hast und lege immer einen Groschen beiseite." Wich means "Don't spent more than you have and always put a penny aside!" But that doesn't mean we don't have some debt from time to time. Our new kitchen is financed, so we will pay it off over 3 years. But we wouldn't have done that if we hadn't been able to pay at least 1/4 of the total down.When I think about it, it just feels wrong to me to own things that I couldn't buy on my own. A little like I didn't deserve these things because I didn't work hard enough or wasn't smart enough to save money. I know it's probably totally stupid of me to think like that, but that's how it feels.
Yeah, I 'd say a house/apartment (and related stuff, like said kitchen) or a car are really the only valid things to go into debt for I can think of.
@@walkir2662 Exactly. Made dept two times in my life: Own apartment and buying a car...
The example used in the video for the political coalition is pretty bad: left and right do not really had coalitions afaik. It's more like parties from a similar spectrum ( +/- a little bit^^) do coalitions. atm it's the green, the liberal and the social party forming a (pretty bad) coalition - the "Ampel" (traffic light - green, yellow, red are the colours of the 3 parties). Before that we had a big coalition with the two biggest parties, the conservative democrats (imo far away from the US conservative republicans in terms of being right wing) and the social party. so more left and middle type of coalitions.
I totally agree with you, when it comes to seperate the kids at some young age. The 4th grade is much to early, so I'm glad, that (at least) Brandenburg (where I went to school) and Berlin don't adopt this stupid system from the west and stick on the system from the GDR where the elementary school goes from grade 1-6, which gives the kids two more years to grow and mature.
The division of students into different school types (main school for 9 years, secondary school for 10 years and Abitur for 12 years) is not a decision set in stone. Every child has the opportunity to change the type of school at any time or, after completing their type of school, to move to the next higher level and also achieve a high level of education.
There are many flaws and shortcuts in this video... For instance, Germany"s economy was basically dead after WW1. The reparation payments put a noose around the country's neck, the newly founded republic struggled. Which all in all allowed the populists to rise. After WW2 the Allies were smarter, the Marshall Plan foresaw, that Germany was needed for stability in Europe. So instead of ripping the country off all that was left they helped to regrow. Not for its own sake, of course, but as a future market for American products as well. ;-)
the high taxation is a structural problem Germany has (caused like most problems by left wings which are and where btw. also like all socialist the biggest antisemit/antizionist (Nazis were in the end of the day also just a socialist variation). That Germany is still among the best countries in Europe has in reality to do with that most other European countries made the same/similar mistakes - just like most of the world did. But the difference of the income between the US and Germany (it was once pretty much the same) and the loss of dynamics (the US is much more dynamic) shows that Germany has some deeper structural problems (left wing/green caused high cost Energy problems, left wing/green caused housing problems, left wing/green caused antisemitism/antizionism in combination with crime caused by the SAME ones, mostly Muslims, also in the tradition of Hitler and anti-englightened backuped by left wings/green socialist. a problem more and more all western european countries got (due to left wings) and one important reason why eastern central/eastern european countries have in most cases now a lower crimerate (in theory they should have a higher one. and the negative migration problem causes also much higher costs for everything (in difference to most migrants which add constructive). It is also a general European problem that they try to balance the disadvantages in comparision to the US by 'but we have a 'free' healthcare' system'. This shows that there is a problematic mentality, because everyone with an higher IQ should know that a) before a good healthcare system has to come the 'income' to pay for that which means economy is more important) and b) 'free healthcare' is no civilizatoric vision (already the first tribes on the planet had within their abilities a 'taking care about their community' - but that is NOT a vision to progress (just sharing money/resources - one at first, again, has to get). this already half-dead mentality is a problem, not just in Germany but in most parts of Europe. Most of Europe has certain structural problems which lowers the ability to act, especially. Too many just lean on the advantages Europe got in a more dynamic time as THE economic hotspot with most innovations on the planet. But this 'comfy zone' turned more and more in overloaded structures (bureaucracy is here just one aspect) and more and more losses of creative dynamics and open mindness and antimodernism of a mentlaly aging mindset. There is also a reason why UK even with Brexit has by the same population a better gdp and gdp/capita as France (which was always after the wars behind, to left wing/socialist and therefor half 'southern' - also the main reason why they are behind.. France has for instance a destructive UNION system which is worse than the one in Germany or other more wealthy central and northern european countries. to be straight here: all mainly Germanic cultured countries are in a better shape then the rest of Europe (which has to do with culture - not ethnics. But some things did France better, for instance keeping and continuing to develope nuclear power which is why they have now cheaper energy and less CO2 than Germany (or Italy or or or))) ...
Yes in german they do seperate children into three main direction but the transparancy is very high. if your education boost comes laterin life is possible to chance into higher education/akademic path of life. We call it second way of education.
In Germany, we have the "crafts" sector. If someone wants to open a business in this sector, they need training, have to work in this sector for a while and then get their master's degree.
A university degree would only be of limited use to them in this case, they would still have to do a normal apprenticeship, work and only then can they take the master's examination for this profession.
This applies to bakers, metalworkers, gas and heating engineers, car mechanics and many other professions. So, for example, if you want to take over your parents' business, you either have to be a master in this profession yourself or hire and pay one.
Those kids that weren't showing good academic performance in early days are accommodated to enter University or through Dual Studies with companies at a later stage in their education. Vocational school is industry oriented as well as the possibility to enter Universities. The education system is fluid and flexible for the who are weaker with their learning at early stage of the educational path and show strength at the later stage when they get involved with the industries they work with.
The same is through for kids who showed strength in early education but were then aren't able to continue University, they still have the possibility to get into industries and completed their studies and work there.
The education system is NOT as rigid as the English "one-stream" education system which I went through myself. I find this one-stream education is stupid as per my experience with my studies. I had no idea of the reality of work until you are several years down in the industry/office many years after completed studies. My kids who are Germans and went through education system already know what they are doing when they completed their Gymnasium.
In itself, the system would work if people weren't involved ;) Every federal state has its own school system. Sometimes a transfer after 4 or 6 years, then possibly after 8 or 9, or finally after 11 or 12. It's a terrible mess. And if you end up with an unfavorable school on your school certificate when you graduate, you won't even be considered for a job, even though you have the qualifications.
For example, there is another type of school: the comprehensive school, the Gesamtschule. In some federal states it is more of a school for weak pupils, in other federal states it is a mixture of Realschule and Gymnasium. But what Realschule and Hauptschule mean is also different... I did my vocational training at Siemens and they told me straight away that I shouldn't mention my comprehensive school certificate next time I applied, as it would only be recognized as what it really is in Berlin and the surrounding area.
Yet I think the system I went through was far more pleasant than any other I've ever experienced through friends. Elementary school up to Year 6, not just Year 4. Even in Year 6, I didn't know what I wanted to be, so how could I have decided on a type of school? I wasn't even sure whether I wanted to do the Abitur or not. That's why I decided to go to a Gesamtschule. Firstly, it's like a Gymnasium in terms of the curriculum (at least for us), but with the option of not being left without a qualification after year 10 if you don't want to do the Abitur after all. And at the same time, it didn't completely lose sight of the technical and craft part. And the students were only divided up individually in some subjects, i.e. whether they were better or worse. It would be easier to move up or down within a subject than to change the whole school and have an impact on all subjects.
Maybe it sounds weird when kids are seperated so early but everyone can get higher education later on, even after vocational training. It does not mean that you cannot study when you have learning difficulties in your early school years. Lots of kids in my family and my friends families went to Haupt or Realschule first and studied after finishing the vocational training in their jobs and are engineers or so nowadays. So it sounds hard but it is not bad at all. It depends on the childrens' will and energy...
Germany as of right now is actually the 3rd largest economy in the world.
yes since 2024
germany is not a 2 party country^^
In Germany we have more parties but the result is the same. In elections you can only choose between "distress" or "miserable". So it doesn't matter which party ruins our wealth in the next 4 years.
The best times of Germany is past. We are falling behind. And we fall ...and fall ...and fall and fall...
The education system isn't perfect, in fact the old East German system was probably even better (it's a system still used by Finland), but if someone is, let's say, a late starter, then they can move up in the system, also they have a parallel comprehensive system (Gesamtschule) that you can choose if you think it's better suited to your child. I've lived and worked here for over 25 years now, I think the decisive factor is the high level of worker protection, it's harder to hire and fire than in the UK or the US, this gives the workforce a higher sense of job security and makes them more loyal, which in turn makes for better productivity.
Ich schaue deine Reaktionen auf deutsche Videos nun schon einige Monate und bin mir sicher, dass du diesen Kommentar übersetzen wirst. Du wurdest nach all den Videos schon deutscher als du dir vorstellst und ich hoffe du reagierst mal auf Rammstein - Deutschland mit englischem Untertitel. Dieses Lied bring alles leid und alles was das deutsche Herz heutzutage ausmacht und aufgearbeitet wurde, audiovisuell auf den Punkt ! Ein Song der für mich persönlich soetwas wie ein „Stolperstein“ ist, aber dennoch gibt es Menschen die denken Rammstein wäre eine rechtsradikale Band. Das absolute Gegenteil ist der Fall. Ach und bevor ich es vergesse, Danke für deinen Content !
The three-tier school system does not work. The OECD has proven that school grades are not awarded based on performance, but on social background. Those who have academic parents are more likely to be sent to high school and university, even if they are only of average intelligence and someone from the lower class is just as smart. The child from the lower class does not get sufficient grades and recommendations from the teacher, even though they achieve the same. Instead of promoting the best, social selection is made. That is why the OECD is calling for the abolition of this system.
Changing schools is difficult because the learning content is not the same. Those who change have to learn a lot in a short space of time. Instead of changing schools, people are more likely to accept educational offers that are only offered after the first school. This would not be necessary if there were only one type of school. What is also missing are all-day schools that offer tutoring in the afternoon.
What works well is dual training, where careers are taught at school and the students work in a company at the same time. What they learn at school they put into practice at the same time.
Certain types of companies require proof of a certain level of training. In Germany, not everyone can open a business of their own; they also have to prove that they have the necessary skilled workers in their company.
The electoral system means that absolute majorities are unusual. Anyone who wants to govern usually has to make compromises with one or more partners. This takes the edge off the political struggle. If you insult someone today, you might need them for a coalition tomorrow. That's why you think twice about what you say. This has led to a larger party spectrum. What is two parties in the US or USA is about six in Germany. The will of the voters can be reflected accordingly better.
What Schröder did was similar to what Blair did. Social benefits were cut and unions weakened in order to lower wages. There was redistribution from the bottom up.
Financial control is currently under criticism. Investments should have been made in infrastructure during the period of low interest rates, but legal requirements prevented this. Now you have to invest and it's getting more expensive.
The System of Education is not perfect, no. But while in one type of school, good or bad grades may prompt a suggestion to switch to one of the other two paths - so no, lost potential is not that much an issue.
In contrast, if you look at the UK and USA, those 2 have such a drive to push kids into College/Universities (it is a money making business, after all), but that can not work for everyone really, as not everyone can even apply their College Degree to an corresponding job afterwards. And UK/US care less about how qualified you are, as long you pay. That is how you end up with so moany reels showing Murican College Kids, that are dumber than Toast, that can not find Canada or Mexico on a Map.
BTW, we're back to #3 economy in the world, after USA and China.
This is why the Schulpflicht is to important. Children from the age of 6 have to attend school by law.
Edit: Our school system has issues and I think we split the kids up to early. I think they shouldn´t be separated until grade 6 around the age of 12/13.
We had that in Lower Saxony when i went to school in the 90s. Everyone was still together until the end of the 6th class. There where only different difficulty tier classes in English and Math.
@@Psi-Storm I'm also from Lower Saxony during my time we had the 2 years of Orientierungsstufe after primary school. That was really annoying by the time you got used to the new teachers and students you had to change school again.
I don't need to watch this. As a proper old school German I know what it is. It's work ethics and the notion, that it is necessary to contribute to society. And of course - being dumb enough to think, our elites do it, too.
At the very core of it is the Christian faith and foremost the Bible verse: "The one that does not work shall not eat." - Oh wait! They have that in other countries, too! Especially America. BUT there it is more narcissistic and egotistical, with less "love for your neighbor".
And of course - it's being destroyed for at least 100 years, rapidly increasing in the past years.
Also, MAN you have no idea how many parties we have to choose between, do you? Let me tell you. 35. We have 35 parties for which we can give our vote to govern us. With that, it is quite common that a single party does not get enough minimum amount of majority votes to rule alone. So they enter into a coalition with 1-2 parties. Often they can choose which ones, so it's rare that oposing parties enter into governing coalition. The left out parties divide themselves up into one of the fraction, usually the left out party (from the coalition) turning into the opposition inside the Bundestag.
Still, the party with the majority of votes, no matter how little, gets to put their candidate into the councellor chair.
Tbh, it's by far not an ideal system, lots of discussions when it comes to governing, way too many people in the governmen (like, 10 different parties participating in the law makings, it's like 500+ people there), leading to long waiting times for law changes and updates. But WHEN they come to conclusion, it often is a compromiss that does not piss off oposing voters enough to storm the government building or smth.
Ein Kluger bemerkt alles ein Dummer macht über alles eine Bemerkung. A clever person notices everything, a stupid person makes a comment about everything. - The music and transitions and the rarely used stock footage makes the video you react to good. I personally don´t share the view´s on germany he provides, bcause my focus is more on the working poor and the "money royalties" we got ... but as an overview a good video to react to.
They don’t fall through - there were educated in that skills, that they are able and adore. The University is important, yes, but you cannot run a society only with academics. There are many children who doesn’t want to study they became great specialists in work and they are often better paid as lower academics.
Taxes are not evil! in a functioning society, taxes are used to spread cost for contributions to society to a large group as possible. Society is made up put of you and me. More taxes mean more contributions, means less personal costs. Less taxes means you having to pay for those costs alone. e.g.: taxes spent on the education system distributes the costs of educating your child to society. less taxes spent on education makes you having to pay for you childs education by your own. I guess, there's a reason for you to not send your child to a private school ? Well, without tax funding, there will be no more public schools and you'll have to pay private fees. And this is true for every state run service! Less taxes ? Less NHS. Less taxes ? Less social security.
Without taxes, will need to pay private for the things we need. Upper class can, we don't. The way to stick together is by paying taxes. Less taxes will only enrich the rich.
The only question is, how to make sure, taxes are going where we need them. You'll have to decide which party to trust to do exactly that.
And yes, I'm not a Brit, I'm not eligibale to vote in UK elections. But this misunderstanding of taxes is not inherent to Britain. This is an issue for all but the one percenters everywhere on the globe. Don't let them kid you with the tax argument. Make sure to control where those taxes go!
This is a bit odd... The UK learned us germans how industries are working!
'Made in Germany' wasn't a proof of high quality at first. It ment: This is crap! But that changed.
i think the seperation system was better than the inclusion system since it tends to fail both parties. you cannot challenge the smart kid while also cannot give the less gifted one the support they need. also since they introduced inclusion the results of basic education got worse with each passing year. the debt thing is more of a split thing the left tends to be more in favour of debt while the right is against it. also the goverment of all parties did not spend in investments or maintenance at least not enough to not get a problem in the last 20 years.
School system isn't 100% perfect and there are indeed kids that "fall through the cracks" for all sorts of reasons. Depending on the region the numbers may vary. However way above average the system works well and it offers many free opportunities for everybody (who's interested) up until their late 20ies. There are some sponsored scholarships and training even into into one's early 30ies to "catch up".
One can't build a country with academics alone.
Those with higher education typically don't "downgrade" into learning a craft or become artisans -- that's what many believe happens when they do: a social and economic downgrade.
One can think and invent all day long, but eventually stuff needs be physically made and produced.
Unfortunately vocational training dropped quit drastically in recent years because of this mindset one can only succeed in life with a high school or university degree. This leaves many craft trades and SMEs without suitable young talent.
As a result the waiting lists for tradespeople are getting longer and longer and the prices you pay for their work are getting higher and higher.
Somebody eventually needs to cook a meal, repair a car, pave a road and cut some hair, and you don't need an academic degree to do any of this.
a plumber, carpenter or bricklayer dosnt need an university diploma, thats why kids fom "haupt or Real school are dooing an
vocational training
The both mayor parties (of the past) are rather central. A coalition between the far-right and far-left is not thinkable. Since there the political system allows a multi-party government, coalition between labour and conservatives are sometimes the most logical and reasonable option.
We have a little bit more parties in Germany as 2. At the upcomming vote for EU you have the choose for 32 Parties..
Its totally shitty with the big coallition . 16 years of still standing
9.30: I hate it, when people talk oder Hitler's war as if it was a natural Desaster that came oder Our country!
The CDU/CSU and the SPD are both mainstream parties. They are not totally different. Plus, we have smaller parties as well and if necessary, parties form coalitions in order to build the government.
They are both moderate parties, but they are quite far apart in their view on how the country should be run, especially if you compare them to US parties. Those would both be right wing, with the one being slightly further out.
Under Ms. Merkel (CDU) there would be no minimum wage - to the goodwill of employers.
The SPD campaigned on the minimum wage. What employers don't like.
This means that the CDU is “business-friendly” and the SPD is “employee-friendly”.
This has no longer become so clear in recent years. But the differences between both are still clear...
Why germans like CASH ? Simple answer i guess "you hold it in your hands/wallet" if empty then finish. With Cards =no real control what has been give away for, sometimes, crap not really needed ;)
your feeling is right 😒
Germany was lucky, Eisenhower who lost so many soldiers at the DJ made Germany better usa, he introduced the D-Mark and and and and and and supported Ludwig Erhard who had free prices 1948 England and France on the other side won the war and thought they could lay back and relax, Senna says again if you think everything is under the control you are not fast enough the good thing was that the union boss from Volkswagen made Mr Pirch the boss in 1991 Volkswagen was bankrupt and afterwards Volkswagen was the most important company in Germany it was only good luck and then 1999 was Schröder chanceller he worked with the union man of vw he made good politics and Germany was no longer the sick man of europe
Yeah, the german production focussed school system leads definetly to poorer class-consciousness and political awareness. The System basically wants you to be a happy wheel in the economic system, which doesn't complain about it's position and role in society. It sees you only as work force, rather than a human being (especially in poor paid or minimum wage jobs). But to be fair the school system is more complex than just Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium with other schooling concepts e.g. Waldorfschule. I've been on a school, which is called Gesamtschule, where every class and level of education was represented. You definetly grow more awareness, that not everybody has the same privileges, beliefs and life situation as yourself.
You should rather watch more thoroughly researched videos, like the ones from "Type Ashton"
Ashton compares Germany to the USA because she is American. Living in Germany as I do, I watch her videos to learn about the USA.
Dwayne is from the UK, so Ashton's videos may not be as appealing to him.
Nothing is easy in a coalition that involves parties from the different sides of the spectrum, as can be seen currently in the three-party coalition between the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the FDP (libertarian). Everything is a fight and it is not very efficient. The smallest partner, FDP, turns out to be the biggest roadblock to any of the good plans that got these parties elected in the first place. It's very frustrating to watch how little of the social and infrastructure plans have been put into action with the FDP minister sitting on the money coffers (unless it's another give-away for his wealthy voters). So, after 16 years of wait-and-see approach by Angela Merkel's CDU that led to our now crumbling infrastructure, lack of high-speed internet, a school system that is falling behind, we may now get the CDU back in the next election for another round of sitting it out and cheating the young people of their future.
This is full of halftruths and lies unfortunately....
Bis scholz kam...
Deutschland geht es nicht gut...
Viele Firmen verlassen uns 😢
Unsere Politik war früher super, aber die Wirtschaft wird gerade unreparabel zerstört 😢
Betriebe die gehen, kommen selten zurück
Der ist wirklich gut... Scholz ist an der schlechten "Weltwirtschaft" Schuld... Was sollen die Japaner denn sagen? Scholz seine Schuld? Das Japan beim BIP nun hinter Deutschland auf dem Rang vier gefallen ist - hinter Deutschland...
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The German school system selects your school by random as it is the opinion of a teacher if you are good enough or not. It would be better if an IQ test would be used for the selection but this is an old wish. Teachers can actually grade their tests quite differently every time, I would prefer a machine correcting the answers as I once had a math teacher that gave me a -4 despite me answering every question correct, but only underlining each answer once instead of twice. I was a child that fell through all the cracks the system had. By the way Albert Einstein also never got good grades in this system, as it only supports absolute obedience, but companies tend to love that.
IQ is in no way an indicator of schooling success. Elementary school teachers make their recommendations not only on the basis of their grades but also how mature they are and their willingness to learn and apply themselves. The goal is to help each kid be successful. It's no fun being in a school that you are not fit for and where you only get bad grades.
The IQ of a student doesn´t tell you much. I have an IQ of 136 (at least according to one writen test I did) but I still went to Hauptschule and in hindsight that was right for me because I would have faild big time in Realschule or Gymnasium. I´m not academicly inclined at all. But I agree that the decision shouldn´t just be based on the students grades or teachers whims.
I agree I have an IQ of 146 but since I'm dyslexic I struggled a lot because my english/german teacher deducted two grades so I never got past a 5 even though I always got an 1 for content.
After I finished school I never had an issue with this I'm now almost at a Native speaker level in English and chat gpt is helping a lot with business mails.
But IQ tests still ain't perfect as an indicator.
@@pascalrange2275 I have dyslaxia too and after living in the UK for about 7 years I reached native level English too. 🙂
@@TanjaHermann I see it different despite a good teaching would include the use of many senses as like this a person remembers and people are different. Germanys schools only use frontal teaching, that is not good teaching. I started my school life on an International school, changed to Gymnasium, this was said to be impossible, well I failed, but so did most kids in that school as in 7 Grade there were 3 classes with a total of 76 children 18 got their Abitur at this school with a 1.2 average grade, insanely this is seen as a success, despite 90 % of the other children also got their Abitur, just in a different school. Got my Abitur in a different school. In my eyes the more kids leave a school and the smaller the number of successors is, the worse the school is and like this they should be graded. + No teacher should be an official as these can not be fired and many teachers are crap and should be easy to fire for incompetence, it would be better for them as not everyone is happy and good in this job.
Don't believe all you see or hear. Germany has a lot of depts, the industrie results go back,...
..maybe the citizens didn't like depts, but the state/politicans does:Shadow households they call it. Official the dept rate is in the limits of what the EU has agrees on, But in the shadows they make much higher depts:eksempel is for military...
In relation to GDP, Germany has 63% debt, UK 85%, USA 125%, China 83%, Japan 250%, ....
The latest figures for German exports. Important factor... but says something different.
The export of German goods has increased again... you can also talk badly about a lot of things here in Germany. What if it were that bad? How do you manage to become world travel champion again and again - when you're doing so poorly "financially"?
@@arnodobler1096 What about Sweden?
@@biankakoettlitz6979 I have only taken the largest economies.
didn't know I lived in a superpower