German section no longer viable in European school Luxembourg II

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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.

There are now only a handful of children (5) in the German maternelle section of Lux II. It seems that the school will go through the motions of insisting that all DE go to Lux II, then finally accept that DE parents will not cooperate and then German will, by default, join the privileged Baltic Rim languages of Lux I. After only 1 term, the German section at Lux II is no longer viable.images

This was predicted, of course, because everyone knew Germans will not transport their children across the entire breadth of Luxembourg just to be discriminated against. But the grey-haired male bureaucrats, who don’t have to accompany those children to school, don’t want to hear that. It doesn’t fit the plan.

Black is white, and there is no advantage to having your young children schooled next to your place of work rather than in another town.

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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