A doctoral student from Fahrenzhausen was hardworking in a very selfless way during her semester break: she spent her vacation with four refugee children.
Fahrenzhausen
- During the summer holidays, children and young people enjoy six weeks in which school is a long way away. It was completely different with four children from Fahrenzhausen, because they were proud to be able to go to school. Three girls from Afghanistan and a German-Nigerian boy learned German while teaching in a voluntary project so that they could now follow the regular lessons of the second grade of primary school. Headmistress Monika Rottenfusser observed that these four children need support. Some of the refugee children could not read and the boy had the handicap that English was always spoken at home.
Daughter Anna visited the headmistress during the summer holidays.
She is studying German in Vienna and found the idea of practicing German with the children in a summer school exciting.
This happened for two weeks at the beginning and at the end of the summer vacation so that the children also have two weeks off.
"We want to relieve the children and the class," says Anna Rottenfusser, "because children who come along better in class help everyone involved and, above all, it is no longer frustrating for these children." The small group was able to practice intensively and from time to time Anna Rottenfusser built in a little math in the German class.
"We have achieved an incredible amount," she says after the four weeks of lessons, "and to see that is very fulfilling."
Bureaucratic hurdles are very high
PhD student Anna Rottenfußer sees the great advantage that the small group practiced the language without masks. “It helped the children a lot to look me on the mouth, for example when I showed how to pronounce the letters M and O together.” The extra lessons also clearly showed how disadvantaged students continue to lose touch when wearing masks in class can. The Fahrenzhausen vacation school is a prime example of how integration can work better. The construct around the voluntary project also gives a deep insight. The Rottenfussers had donors who would like to provide the money needed for the lessons.
However, the school is not allowed to accept any money and so Theresia Stadlbauer came into play as the chairwoman of the neighborhood help.
Your association was allowed to accept the donations and then also acted as the organizer of the lessons.
Without the responsibility of the association and without the teacher who made herself available free of charge, none of this would have been possible.
Professional path leads them somewhere else
"It's pretty sad that there are no government grants for something like this," says Anna Rottenfusser.
This special task was an exciting experience for the doctoral candidate.
Your professional path will, however, lead in other directions.
“I never wanted to be a teacher,” says the daughter of the Fahrenzhausen headmistress.
She can certainly imagine repeating the extra lessons in the summer school in the future - if the time is right and she spends her semester break at home with the family.
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