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By: Andreas Schmid
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Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder at the start of school for 2023/24 at a primary school in Munich.
A new timetable will apply from next school year.
© IMAGO / Sven Simon
Bavaria wants to correct the Pisa shock with a new lesson plan.
The ex-secretary general of the Federal Student Conference doesn't believe that this will work - and thinks Bavaria's school system is overrated anyway.
The Free State of Bavaria sees itself as the flagship of German education policy.
“The Bavarian Abitur remains the Bavarian,” said CSU leader Markus Söder on political Ash Wednesday in Passau.
“I don’t want a Bavarian Abitur at Bremen level.
Because the Bremen Abi has, at best, the level of a Lower Bavarian tree nursery.” Rumms.
Laughter in the hall.
Bavaria's Pisa plan: More German and math - less music, art and English
The “Bavaria First” state father is right when he compares the school performance of the Free State with the rest of the Federal Republic.
In many surveys, Bavarian students take the top places.
Only: School performance also seems to be deteriorating in Bavaria, as the recent Pisa shock suggested.
German students are worse than they have been in a long time.
Söder and the state government have already reacted to the study - and adjusted the timetable in primary schools.
More math and German.
Less art, music and works or English.
The rules will come into effect from the next school year - but are causing criticism.
Criticism of Söder's Pisa plan: "I don't think this will be the magical solution"
Headwind comes from music and art associations, among others.
But there is also criticism from Lennart-Elias Seinmetz.
He was general secretary of the Federal Student Conference and state student representative in Saarland.
In an interview with
IPPEN.MEDIA,
he criticizes the Bavarian reorganization of teaching.
“It is not the lack of teaching in a subject that is to blame for the poor results, but rather how the subject is taught and what is conveyed there,” says Seinmetz.
It is also clear: “We need this creative, free, problem-solving-oriented thinking.” Music and art provide this more than math, for example. “Putting two and two together is something the supercomputer can do 60,000 times better than any student who can learned at school.
But the computer can't actually link this information in a meaningful way, and humans can do that.
But that also requires a certain amount of creativity and free thinking.”
His conclusion on the Bavarian Pisa offensive: “I don’t think this will be the magic solution to correct the Pisa results.” Seimetz also thinks the Bavarian school system is overrated.
“I grew up in Saarland, but also went to school in Bavaria for two years.
I don’t think the Bavarian school system is that much better.”
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"Illusion"
Education has some of the same problems as elsewhere - “even if Bavaria is financially better positioned”.
Seimetz experienced this himself.
“When I came to Bavaria from Saarland, I had to repeat a school year because the Bavarian state said: 'Well, we're a lot better and our students know a lot more than they do in Saarland.
That's why you need to be demoted a class.'
And then I was demoted down the class and I have to say, there wasn't really anything I didn't know, let alone I couldn't keep up with my knowledge of Saarland.
I think it’s also a bit of an illusion that things would be so incredibly better now.”
Bayern themselves naturally see things differently.
“Bavaria is at the forefront when it comes to education and it should stay that way,” Markus Söder recently announced.
“We are significantly further developing our very good education system with a PISA offensive in Bavaria.”
The question remains: Where does Bavaria stand in the current Pisa ranking?
There has not been a breakdown by federal state in the PISA study for years - and it is not planned either, as the chairwoman of the education committee in the state parliament, Ute Eiling-Hütig (CSU), tells our editorial team: "More data is always good, “But the number of students tested is not large enough for a special evaluation.” However, she does not doubt that Bavaria would be above the average.
Only: “Unfortunately, the PISA data does not provide such a comparison.”