Dramatic enrollment changes in attempt to prop up failing European school Mamer

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European schools system is like a never-ending maze of paperwork and bureaucracy.

It’s as if they believe that the more forms you fill out, the smarter you become. Secretary general and deputy secretary general are too busy worrying about their pensions and summer vacations to actually produce anything useful.

It’s a system where children are just tiny cogs in a big bureaucratic machine, and education takes a backseat to administrative tasks.

It’s time for a major overhaul, because right now, the European schools system is about as effective as a chocolate teapot.

From last week’s European School I Admin Board meeting:

“Lux I had its Admin Board yesterday. Kari Kivinen attended, as well as the Commission representative (whose name none of us got but I think she is same one who went to most of the others). We agreed on an increase of 20% for the new category 3 pupils. Our director and APEEE came under a lot of pressure to increase it to 25% and the Commission cited Mo’s decision to go for 25% several times, as well as Frankfurt, but we held firm and it went through.

We were also supported by the Lux Inspector and the Lux Min Education representative who said that the local system is not in a position to absorb dozens of non-Luxembourgish kids so the increase should be as low as possible. We now have a potential problem as the Lux II director was proposing 25%. Their Admin Board is today. If they adopt 25% then the matter will go to the Budgets Committee and BoG.

As the SG pointed out, we cannot have two schools in the same city with a different policy on this, especially when according to a new joint enrolment policy adopted yesterday we are forcing parents with kids in the DE, FR and EN sections to send their kids to Lux II, except in certain circumstances. And, of course, if your kids are in certain language sections eg. Danish, they have to go to Lux II.”

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Aim of the European Schools

Educated side by side, untroubled from infancy by divisive prejudices, acquainted with all that is great and good in the different cultures, it will be borne in upon them as they mature that they belong together. Without ceasing to look to their own lands with love and pride, they will become in mind Europeans, schooled and ready to complete and consolidate the work of their fathers before them, to bring into being a united and thriving Europe.

Marcel Decombis, Head of European School, Luxembourg between 1953 and 1960