Discrimination at college: When the migration background turns into a bonus for college kids | EUROtoday

There are certainties in regards to the German schooling system that nearly everybody shares. One is: Students from immigrant households are discriminated towards at college. You hear this assertion in academic coverage discussions, learn it in debate books or newspaper articles. He was laughed at by classmates and lecturers when he mentioned he needed to go to highschool, says Cem Özdemir, the Green Party’s prime candidate within the state elections in Baden-Württemberg. And the Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination, Ferda Ataman, writes in her accounting ebook (I’m from right here. Stop asking!) in regards to the errors of German integration coverage: “If I made it, then in spite of the German education system, not because of it.” After elementary faculty, the lecturers solely really helpful her for secondary faculty – regardless of good grades.