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[quote=Anonymous]I went to school in Germany as a child and my impression is that the tracking system works very well for the students in the Gymnasium and Realschule (top and middle) but that the Hauptschule students (lowest track) are really suffering. The kids with LDs and the kids with behavioral issues all end up there with subpar teachers and no one is getting educated. One of my friends at the Hauptschule, in 10th grade, was confused by the concept of a number between 3 and 4. One of my mother's friends taught at a Hauptschule and she left because she said the general mindset among the teachers was that they were just keeping kids off the streets until they were old enough to collect "Hartz IV" (long term unemployment/welfare) and it was too demoralizing for her. I know we have schools like that in the US too and I'm certainly not saying that we do a good job educating struggling students, but it seems to me that there's a systemic issue with the Hauptschulen in Germany that Americans tend not to be aware of.[/quote]

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