“Everyone liked the suggestion”: 10 cent fine if students don’t speak German
Created: 07/06/2022, 11:30 am
If you don't speak German, you have to pay a 10 cent fine.
Integration class (symbol photo) introduces strict rules.
© Marijan Murat/dpa
Young people pay a fine at a high school in Hamburg if they do not speak German in class.
Now a spokesman for the school board is commenting.
Hamburg – If you speak Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, Russian or Polish, you have to pay 10 cents.
This "penalty" is due at the Louise-Weiss-Gymnasium in Hamburg's Hamm district.
This method is intended to help you learn German.
Your own mother tongue – apart from German – is therefore taboo.
Children from two integration classes imposed this “punitive tariff” on themselves, as reported by the
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.
Pupils from abroad learn in the international preparatory classes (IKV).
The lessons are intended to prepare the young people and children for attending a regular class.
10 cent fine if you don't speak German - "Everyone liked the suggestion"
The proposal came from the students themselves, a spokesman for the school board confirmed when asked by other media.
"Everyone liked the suggestion."
Apparently, speaking the national language in the two IVK classes had gotten so out of hand that good German lessons were no longer possible.
In order to get the problem under control, the teachers talked about it with the young people.
"The suggestion to charge 10 cents for 'sliding' into the national language came from the students themselves. Everyone liked the suggestion," said the spokesman.
Hamburg: Foreign students came up with "punishment" themselves
Headmaster Sven Kertelhein told
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about the “punitive tariff ”: “It is important for us to convey where the rules come from.
Then to develop: What should happen if someone hurts you?
We don't want to impose rules, we want to create them with students, they have to be accepted.
If the total had been higher, e.g.
B. at 5 euros, we would of course have intervened.”
With the penalty money, the students wanted to go out to eat together at the end of school.
But only three euros came together, they say.
Not enough for an ice cream for everyone.
However, the campaign has since ended.
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