Vienna in the language crisis: every second of the school beginners cannot German!

Vienna in the language crisis: every second of the school beginners cannot German!

In Vienna, the current figures on the language skills of beginners alert educational policy: almost half of all first graders, exactly 44.6 percent or 8,342 children, do not understand the lessons sufficiently because they have poor knowledge of German. This reports Today . The situation is even more dramatic among the priorities: Here, over 72.1 percent, i.e. 2,437 of 3,381 children, do not speak German well enough in order to be able to take part in the lessons regularly. Overall, an alarming proportion of 48.8 percent of all new students suffers from serious language deficits, which puts education under pressure.

This problem is criticized as a direct episode years of mismanagement in language support under the current city government. According to the Wiener VP boss Karl Mahrer, the City Councilor of Education Christoph Return (NEOS) has failed to take effective measures to improve the language stand of the children. The decline in language skills is worrying: Experts report that children learn to learn the alphabet, which leads to difficulties even with basic teaching methods, as can be read in the report of ORF Vienna

urgent reforms required

The Vienna People's Party now calls for an immediate reform of German funding in the kindergartens and criticizes the existing concept as completely inadequate. According to the educational representatives, the government parties miss the problems: 11,000 children leave kindergartens every year without basic knowledge of German. "We can no longer overturn on the education system. A new edition of German funding is a necessity," said Mahrer and his education spokesman Harald Zierfuß. As part of the answer to these challenges, the city plans the introduction of additional language promotions and the liability of German funding in the preschool area.

The concerns about the future educational situation in Vienna are obvious. Time is pushing, and the possibility of improving the situation at an early stage could be lost if it is not treated immediately.