Discrimination in the German school system

Racial Profiling in Germany allowed

RE: "Free school transportation"

Synopsis of an email I have sent to the Department of Education and Sports of Munich. It is about how migrant young people are discriminated against in Germany and in Bavaria in particular. It also deals with the 'Low-wage-mafia-company' Jobcenter.

My daughter is attending a higher school since September 2013 in Munich, after she gained a secondary education certificate. Regrettably we found out that in Bavaria visiting a higher school does not entail the benefit of getting free school transportation right away. The tickets need to be prepaid and parents are only reimbursed at the end of the school year and this process can take up to three months. So in the worst case scenario you get your moolah after fifteen months.

Now if you compare this to a student who enters straight away a so-called 'Gymnasium' (you have to know Germans love to segregate and they have this ridiculous three-tired school system) and enjoys free school bussing, you see the difference and it is clearly discriminating.

When it comes to discrimination, Germans are good but Bavarians are unmatched. Not surprisingly they coined the term "Wer betrügt, der fliegt" (in German language it somewhat rhymes and means 'You cheat, you go') and coincidentally it came up just when the EU borders opened for Romanians and Bulgarians. Bavarians love their prejudices and they prefer to stay among themselves. Oh, and they are Catholics.

Back to the subject, which is discrimination in the school system and in particular discrimination against 'migrants'. What constitutes a migrant in Germany? Basically anybody with foreign roots living in Germany. In that sense Americans would be 100% migrants, that's how stupid this term is.

Back to good ol' Germany and here it is important to know:

Despite repeated recommendations from ECRI (the 'European Commission against Racism and Intolerance'), Germany Has quietly not ratified Protocol no. 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights. ( ECRI REPORT ON GERMANY , page 9)

Here are some excerpts from the publication of ECRI, the 'European Commission against Racism and Intolerance' and is titled:

ECRI GENERAL POLICY
RECOMMENDATION No.. 10
ON
Combating RACISM
AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
IN AND THROUGH SCHOOL EDUCATION

In Recommendation No. 10 it is stated on page 4:

Rejecting all forms of direct and indirect discrimination in access to schooling;
….
Recalling that school education is a right and that access to it should be granted to all children present on the territory of member States, regardless of their legal status or that of their parents, and independently of the laws on asylum, immigration and acquisition of citizenship;
…
Emphasising that special measures can improve the access of children from minority groups to school education and to good teaching;
…
Urging that all school authorities be placed under an obligation to promote equality and that progress on compliance with this obligation be properly monitored;

The ECRI recommends its member states on page 5:

1. Ensure compulsory, free and quality education for all, and to this end:
…
3. conceive, at national and regional level, in co-operation with the minority groups concerned, policies to further attendance and full participation of pupils from minority groups, on an equal footing, in the school system:
a) by ensuring that schools have an obligation to promote equality in education;

In 2014 the ECRI published the following report which received only short shrift in the German press:

ECRI REPORT ON GERMANY
(Fifth monitoring cycle)
Adopted on 5 December 2013
Published on 25 February 2014

It states among others:

The enrollment rate of children of migrant background in pre-school facilities, the provision of support to them throughout their educational path and the number of them attending Gymnasium (the type of secondary education preparing pupils for university) are still insufficient. Teachers are three times more likely to recommend Gymnasium, if the child is from a higher socio-economic status, which is detrimental for children of migrant background. 

86. ECRI recommends that the German authorities clarify and quantify, in the National Action Plan on Integration, the two aims of considerably increasing the rate of enrollment of children from migrant backgrounds in pre-school facilities and raising the standard of training and the educational and intercultural competences of child care workers and pre-school teachers; the Plan should also describe the measures which all Länder should undertake in order to achieve these two aims. 

87. The continuing split between children from migrant backgrounds and other children re-emerges when they move up to secondary education. The two lower secondary streams (Hauptschule and Realschule) are attended by twice as many children from migrant backgrounds as the Gymnasium, the third stream, which is still the elite school for the majority population.99 This is why ECRI encourages the authorities to provide children from migrant backgrounds, throughout their primary and secondary education, with the requisite linguistic and educational support for lasting educational success.

Here are my personal experiences in racist Germany:

The racist and discriminatory Jobcenter Munich engages in all imaginable ways of putting migrants at a disadvantage. The Jobcenter Munich resorts to everything that can put pressure on its "clients" (they really call them so), such as lies, slander and collusion!

In addition, they almost never respond to an email with an email but rather resort to letters to answer. This way they play for time and it makes it more tedious to properly file a communications thread.

They refuse to release payments by breaking Germany's basic law and Supreme Court judgments. If you don't go to court, they don't give a fuck.

It does not stop here. The rotten Jobcenter in Munich gets even so seedily low that it sends disgustingly slimy letters to my daughter in order to get her email address with which they then snoop around on social networks.

The Jobbenter Munich is so sleazy that it asks my daughter to send in the marks sheet, devoid of any legal basis. They then suggest students to consider leaving school and join a work place instead in low-wage jobs, as reported several times in the press.

It is just so fitting the most corrupt state in Germany, the province of Bavaria: racism and discrimination, an immigrant clean-up action at the Viktualienmarkt in 2013 with hordes of police, ethnic profiling by police officers in this ridiculous pheasant hunters uniform and observed several times by my daughter and addressed in the ECRI report on page 42 (45 . German Institute for Human Rights, "Racial Profiling" - Illegal human control of persons according to § 22 paragraph 1 a Federal Police Act, make recommendations to the legislature, courts, and police, 2013), racist and discriminatory staff at the Jobcenter in Munich.

I close with the points 13 and 14 ibid on page 40:

13. (§ 89) ECRI recommends that the authorities clarify and quantify, in the National Action Plan on Integration the objective of providing children from migrant backgrounds, throughout their school and university careers, the necessary individual support to realise their potential. Specification is required of the actions to be undertaken by the Länder to achieve this aim. 

14. (§ 93) ECRI recommends that the German authorities insert into the National Action Plan on Integration the objective, with measures to be taken, to combat the practice whereby children from higher socio-economic status are three times more likely than others to obtain favourable opinions on the continuation of their schooling at Gymnasium.

A veritable slap in the face of Germany, I would think. We have lived some fifteen years in one of the corruptest and poorest countries in Asia. BUT we have never had an experience of discrimination like in Germany! We have always been treated kindly in Asia and that is where the heart of my daughter lies, NOT Germany.