More than half of students do not speak German at home in Vienna
According to data provided by the Austrian authorities, an increasing proportion of children in Vienna do not speak German on a daily basis. In the 2018/2019 school year, German was not the everyday language for as many as 52.5 per cent of students. Most children who speak a different language at home live in the district of Favoriten, where these figures are as high as 72.7 per cent.
Susanne Raab, the Austrian Minister for Integration, talked about this data in an interview with the leading Austrian daily newspaper Krone Zeitung. The politician stated that the authorities must ensure that immigrant “parallel societies” do not form in Austria.
“The numbers show that we have to work with parents. Twenty-five per cent of Afghan refugees in Austria have never been to school in their country of origin. That is why we have summer schools, where children learn German intensively, as well as courses for parents,” Raab explained.
In Austria, there are so-called Deutschklassen – classes in which children learn German. Raab, which belongs to the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP), strongly supports the existence of such classes.
It is also important to keep in mind that the amount of young people raised in Muslim families has grown to such an extent that they are more numerous than Christians today in Vienna.
Source: pch24.pl
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