thu 17 jan 2015, 17:13

Extra lesson pay if child is poor in language

FRAUENFELD –

The Swiss canton of Thurgau wants parents with children that the German is not proficient in additional language classes in the fund. The authorities in Frauenfeld, the capital of Thurgau, have to raise the alarm because a trial showed that 350 of the 1000 children of primary and nursery schools so bad the German master, that they are tutoring need.

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The educational authorities want to intervene, because if the children do not quickly learn German, they will cause irreparable backwardness in education. The paid tutoring are a stick behind the door for parents to be home more to the German language. It is totally unacceptable that children are halfway through primary school, not good German, said Walter Berger of the public education. These are mainly children of migrants, especially from Southern Europe.