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From this German publication:

Already in eight of seventeen Kindergartens and in five of eight elementary schools, the rate of children with a foreign native language has surpassed the 50 percent mark.

In high schools the rate is already at 56,64 percent.

The Kindergarten educators, teachers and directors are reporting of partly catastrophic knowledge of the German language of the students. Especially in the so-called “hot-spot schools”

it’s almost impossible to hold normal lessons. The Otto Glöckel-School is one of them. There a third grade class is taught in which 93 percent of the children do not speak German at home. “That it is de facto not possible to hold a targeted lesson class, as should be clear to everyone by now.

In order to not spoil these kids, a future a strengthened support system of schools and cities such as Vienna Neustadt for instance is absolutely needed”, Klaus Schneeberger explained last Thursday.

He precludes the demand by the Vienna city president Heinrich Himmer (SPÖ) for more teachers and targeted language education. Schneeberger wants to make the Education ministry responsible for that. “If we don’t react now then we will have problems. The language deficit of children of today is fertile soil for unemployment tomorrow,”

Although projects from the city and other education authorities are a good thing, but state support so far was only a drop on a hot stone. “The ministry has to recognize the signs of the times and finally act in a consequential manner”, opines Schneeberger.