I don't know if it has to do with simple segregation. Well, the local bourgeoisie sends its kids to the school with the highest graduation achievable because they want to keep a certain status in society. Also, often enough, to find somebody who takes over their business once they grow old. They do this - I don't know, if you can say "less caring about whether their child is able to make that" or "just to make sure their kid receives the best possibilities in life", which a graduation defintely is which enables you to study at university. Maybe you know it somewhere from practice, people which only have a secondary school leaving certificate themselves sending their kids to the same school with the same educational qualification because they think "this has been enough for me to get along in life, so it will be enough for you too". Even though the kid could do better than this. Or it would be better for it to start there because who knows what happens? Maybe he even makes it to graduation and more doors stand open to it in life. On another hand, and this is something I can understand, if you try for Abitur, financial costs that come with that are sure higher than only 10-classes-school. That's because of school trips that take longer than a day. A trip to Weimar, London or whatever - people which are not that rich need to save for this. Actually, otherwise it maybe would be their own family vacation. You need to know if you want to put yourself in such situations or not. If you got 2 kids that try for that graduation, you gonna experience that twice. Maybe a lot of people also fear this strongly and that for they don't let their kids go to school where they try for Abitur. 10-classes-school - if the kid even makes it to the 10th, these days they got that school form pretty much worked down by putting it together with those from the 9-classes-school; often enough you only have one class in the 10th school year - only sees you until you turn 16 or 17 (if you make it without ever needing to repeat a year). With under 18, it's a lot more harder with travelling abroad as you legally cannot fully make all decisions by yourself. So - none of that taking place.
On another hand I also must say: Education is a matter of the federal states. Each one can design it that way that it wants. You have like 16 (little or more ) different school education systems. In some federal states it may be more possible because more poor people generally live there, in others it may be even more like "only snobs and rich kids have Abitur graduation". This also surely comes into play.
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The school thing
Date: 21 July 2016 07:22 pm (UTC)Well, the local bourgeoisie sends its kids to the school with the highest graduation achievable because they want to keep a certain status in society. Also, often enough, to find somebody who takes over their business once they grow old.
They do this - I don't know, if you can say "less caring about whether their child is able to make that" or "just to make sure their kid receives the best possibilities in life", which a graduation defintely is which enables you to study at university.
Maybe you know it somewhere from practice, people which only have a secondary school leaving certificate themselves sending their kids to the same school with the same educational qualification because they think "this has been enough for me to get along in life, so it will be enough for you too". Even though the kid could do better than this. Or it would be better for it to start there because who knows what happens? Maybe he even makes it to graduation and more doors stand open to it in life.
On another hand, and this is something I can understand, if you try for Abitur, financial costs that come with that are sure higher than only 10-classes-school. That's because of school trips that take longer than a day. A trip to Weimar, London or whatever - people which are not that rich need to save for this. Actually, otherwise it maybe would be their own family vacation.
You need to know if you want to put yourself in such situations or not. If you got 2 kids that try for that graduation, you gonna experience that twice.
Maybe a lot of people also fear this strongly and that for they don't let their kids go to school where they try for Abitur.
10-classes-school - if the kid even makes it to the 10th, these days they got that school form pretty much worked down by putting it together with those from the 9-classes-school; often enough you only have one class in the 10th school year - only sees you until you turn 16 or 17 (if you make it without ever needing to repeat a year). With under 18, it's a lot more harder with travelling abroad as you legally cannot fully make all decisions by yourself. So - none of that taking place.
On another hand I also must say: Education is a matter of the federal states. Each one can design it that way that it wants. You have like 16 (little or more ) different school education systems.
In some federal states it may be more possible because more poor people generally live there, in others it may be even more like "only snobs and rich kids have Abitur graduation".
This also surely comes into play.