Annotated Jewgle translation

Educators: Every third child can't speak German: many aren't even human

A future rapist eyes his victims.

About 30 percent of the Graz school children have a mother tongue other than German. Those that can be called children anyway. Urban Policy and teachers scream for help.

In the space of movement in kindergarten Andersen street it is topsy-turvy. First run in circles, then climb the ladder and finally do a somersault on the mat. The kindergarten teacher explained the process of moving circle with hands and feet. For most of the children do not speak German or just bad, that is, the Eastern Europeans who try, rather than the malicious little Shiptars and Turks, or the niglets who communicate in some sort of collection of clicks and grunts. "In the fall we have a silent film, because the children cannot communicate with the local African fauna," the teacher Sabine Osnigg the situation described at the beginning of the kindergarten year.

Yet every expert: integration needs language. But if the linguistic diversity rather makes us speechless, the shot backfires. If, as in the Andersen lane of 76 children, only 13 can speak German, a total of 19 languages zip through the room - how should the children of the German language can be taught?

But not only the lack of language is a problem. Often children are behind with their playmates immigrant from Austria. In different cultures we have other educational imperatives than in Austria. "With three years, the children should already be able to draw a head. Many of the foreign children but can not," said the kindergarten director Ursula Schweda, "although we can't expect them to draw a human head when the aren't human themselves. Therefore, these children need special care much. The work is intense. Constant repetition and to agree with "hands and feet", like they do in their native jungles, is one of them, as well as the parents make suggestions. This goes to the substance. Call for more assistants

"Our educators reached its performance limit," says VP-Councillor Sissi Potzinger. It has therefore called for in the recent municipal council in a request to land additional integration wizard - all parties were in favor.

VP-Children and Youth Councillor Detlev Eisel-Eiselsberg agrees to the criticism with a. "The country takes into account the specific situation of the city of Graz not." In the statistics, the situation is clear: In the urban kindergartens have 42.2 percent of the children of immigrant background, to take the private concerns, it is every third child, according to experts. In the rest of Styria it is eight percent. The answer to this challenge of the country: two counselors for all kindergartens and 200 hours language lessons Grazer for the whole of Styria.

Potzinger and emphasizes that learning the language is crucial in kindergarten for the future of the children. "More integration assistants are no budget problem but a future investment in the best sense."

"Every child has potential"

The kindergarten teachers have the duty to bring every child to school readiness, and none to drop under the table, so Ursula Schweda. "Every child has potential, and I maintain this in spite of six thousand years of evidence to the contrary, and could learn. If they only get additional funding."

CHRISTINA LECHNER, GERALD WINTER CHRISTINA LECHNER, GERALD WINTER