“Smoke candles are being lit here’: Ebersberg parents doubt the Bavarian school system. The reduction in subjects in music, art and works in primary school is causing waves in Bavaria.

“The world has changed completely, but the school system has been the same for decades,” says Lakhena Leng, mother of two children (8 and 10) “Only then can we say whether it is a step forward or sideways,’ says headmaster Alexander Bär.