Austria 'Ghetto' Language Classes Leave Children to Repeat School
Schools may now choose how to support non-native German speakers after a review found the separate classes left many pupils at least one year behind.
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Austria ‘ghetto’ language classes leave children behind
For two years after he first arrived in Austria, Iraqi pupil Abdlrahman Aljanabi did not follow maths, science and other subjects like the rest of his peers. Instead, he was pulled out of his class every day for several hours to learn German under a flagship program meant to bring newcomers like him
Austria 'ghetto' language classes leave children to repeat school
Instead, he was pulled out of his class every day for several hours to learn German under a flagship programme meant to bring newcomers like him up to par with the national language. But an assessment has shown the programme -- long decried by critics as "ghetto" classes -- leaves a number of pupils to repeat at least one school year, contributing to a relatively high number of over-age pupils in the Alpine EU member. "I was a bit lost, a bit up…
AGI - In Austria to learn German they left their classmates every day, losing hours of mathematics, science and other subjects. A path designed to encourage the inclusion of foreign pupils in Austrian schools, but which for many has resulted in a delay in their studies: according to an evaluation by the Ministry of Education, a quarter of the students involved had to repeat at least a year. The government has therefore loosened the obligation of…
Disputed program: Austria 'ghetto' language classes leave children to repeat school
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