Holger Schmitt takes his children out from class because he thinks the proportion of foreigners is too high.
Furthermore he believes that his children will learn more, if there are more German children in the class and a high proportion of migrants is not beneficial affect for the education. The headmaster and the reporters imagine that he is extremely right-wing and should not bear responsibility for his two kids.
A statistic from 2008 shows that more than 6% of the German pupils and 15% of the foreigner children leave the school without a school leaving qualification.
Is the father xenophobic? Or is this a sign of sense of responsibility if a father chooses the best choice of education for his children?
A big issue is that many foreign children do not grow up with German. In addition they do not speak the German language at home; they speak always in their own native language and that is the reason why they often have a lack of German knowledge, pronunciation and grammar. When the family migrate from they own home country to Germany, they always move in area where a lot of people like them live. So it is difficult for the kids to learn German and they will always have trouble in school. The kids feel insecure and not comfort because sometimes they do not understand the teacher or the pupils. This enables that the foreign children prefer to speak their own native language instead of German in school.
German children will also suffer under this issue that many foreign children do not speak German in class. Because the learning process will be adjust in consideration of to the foreigner children. When foreigner children become in school, they need to be first learn German and impede the common education. In many cases German pupils can not develop because the teacher must be more concentrate on foreigner children for a better integration. So the German people become neglect because the foreigner children need more help in everyday school life.
So what we can do that we help foreigner children in their everyday school life and do not neglect German pupils?
Probably before children go to school, they have to do a language test. Whether they have achieved a specific language level or not. After this test the teacher must decide if he is willing for the school or is it better when he stays a year longer in the Kindergarten.
Another good facet is that there should be more effort in the Kindergarten for foreigner children and more offers which prepare foreigner children for everday school life.