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Most likely the rush to G8 (8 jaehriges Gymnasium).

West Germany used to have 13 years of combined primary school and 'high school'. East Germany had 12. After the unification increasingly in West Germany as well 12 years school were introduced. Often without changing the overall structure of schools, the concrete teaching or the amount of stuff pupils should now.

This has lead to a lot of stress for pupils, and often additional private lessons for pupils, who simply were overstrained.

In Bavaria this move came additional pretty suddenly and without consideration of teacher's opinions.

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Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 06:40:59 PM EST
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Thanks, that figures. There is also the following in a SPIEGEL op-ed by Conny Neumann:

CSU-Debakel: Ende des bayerischen Absolutismus - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Politik		CSU debacle: End of the Bavarian absolutism - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - Politics
Bildungsmisere gab den Ausschlag		Educational misery was the clincher
In ihrem Alleinvertretungsanspruch plante die CSU den milliardenschweren Transrapid, den außer ihrer Führungsspitze niemand wollte und erlitt eine Bauchlandung. Mit der gleichen Hochnäsigkeit entschied sie über eine dritte Startbahn am Münchner Flughafen. Es sieht so aus, als ob es auch dem geduldigen, bodenständigen Untertanen jetzt reicht.		In its claim to exclusive agency the CSU planned the billions-heavy Transrapid [maglev; line to Munich's airport], which was wanted by no one except for their top leadership, and which suffered a belly landing. With the same snootiness they decided over a third runway at Munich airport. It looks as if now even the patient, down-to-earth subjects have got enough.
Den meisten Unmut aber verursacht die Misere in den Schulen. Die CSU preist sich ohne Unterlass als Bildungssieger der Republik. Zwei Wochen vor der Wahl, als die Bayern aus den Ferien kamen und zusammen mit dem Schulbeginn der Wahlkampf so richtig Fahrt aufnehmen sollte, zeigte sich den Eltern, Kindern und Pädagogen, dass im reichen Freistaat noch immer die Klassen viel zu groß sind, dass überall Lehrkräfte fehlen, Unmengen Stunden ausfallen, dass auf dem flachen Land Dutzende Schulen geschlossen werden, dass die Mittagsbetreuung noch immer improvisiert ist, dass die Ganztagsschule, die berufstätige Eltern dringend brauchen, noch die Ausnahme ist.		But what caused most displeasure was the misery at the schools. The CSU extols itself without intermission as the education winner of the [German] republic. Two weeks before the election, when Bavarians were returning from the holidays, and the campaign was to get into full stride simultaneously with the sstart of school; it transpired to parents, children and educators that the classes are still much too large, that there is a lack of teachers everywhere, that vast amounts of classes are cancelled, that dozens of schools are closed on the lowlands, that daycare is still improvised, that all-day schooling, something working parents need badly, is still the exception in the Free State.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Sep 29th, 2008 at 06:10:25 AM EST
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Elections South of the Veal Sausage Equator | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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