Dude, you bent my tower – Part II

alright…were was I ?

Ah, yes…they gathered politicians to save the PISA-shocked Germans…I think I mentioned how one gets into the ministry of education, didn’t I ?
So they tried to figure out what went wrong and how come the country that once produced marvellously bright people such as Albert Einstein, Wernher von Braun and Juergen Klinsmann suddenly failed so horribly.
In 2000, in our trademark field, the natural sciences even the Czech Republic was better than us. We were number seven, not from the top, but BELOW THE AVERAGE!
Regarding reading comprehension, we made 21st place…regarding the relationship between exceptionally bad and exceptionally good pupils only Mexico, Brazil, Luxemburg and the Republic of Latvia had more illiterate pupils than us and on the good side we still were two places below the average. At least, we were slightly better than France…and no, I won’t mention the results regarding mathematics…
But we also had highscores. No other country had more pupils who stated they didn’t like to read (>40%). And in no other country among the countries which participated your success is as determined by your social origin as it is in Germany…even in Poland or the Russian Federation poor children have a better chance for a good education than in -as we used to call it in German- “the country of poets and thinkers”….yes…I agree…we wrote lots of poems about how good we THOUGHT we were…

Wanna know what happened ? Stay tuned…

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