Building land in the middle of nowhere with the house prices?!

The problem is often that children from [bildungsfernen Familien] first have to be introduced to the topic of education, learning, and often also to the German language in general. Recently, the situation at a primary school in Ludwigshafen went through the media: 40 first graders who cannot be promoted to the 2nd grade! Of course, you are more likely to find something like this in the city than in the countryside, but only because there are corresponding neighborhoods in the city where the social structure is like that. In other city districts or in the countryside, it looks different; there you do not have this concentration and you can address individual children with deficits differently than with 20 or 25 in the class.

Because their parents don’t teach them.. I am the daughter of an illiterate woman and already won a reading competition in 2nd grade. I would even argue that children who are not handed everything on a silver platter are a bit more ambitious because they want to change something for themselves.

I don’t know your family background. But perhaps despite the illiteracy of the guardians, there was a caring family environment in which education itself had value. Completely aside from that, today’s time with the digital pacifier machine for all the hardships of the parent-child relationship is no longer comparable to back then. And yet it is definitely not generally true that children crave what they don’t find at home. THAT is actually rather rare. Much more often there is a mental adaptation to the home environment – and if education has no value in this environment, little is spoken together and reading is not done, this affects the children in a way that schools cannot compensate for. Reading and writing must not only be learned, they also have to be practiced, depending on talent sometimes more, sometimes less.

because they want to change something for themselves.

_if_ they want to change something for themselves.

Because their parents don't teach them.. I am the daughter of an illiterate woman and already won a reading competition in 2nd grade. I would even claim that children who are not handed everything on a silver platter are even a bit more ambitious because they want to change something for themselves.

I had a schoolmate whose father was a janitor and mother a housewife and also illiterate. However, the parents used every free minute to show their children the "fascination" of all kinds of things (visits to museums, trade fairs, creative toys). My schoolmate is now an engineer and managing director of a medium-sized company. But I dare to say that I consider this an exception, probably like in your case as well. Only through this "indirect" support is ambition awakened, not through an afternoon with RTL2.

My ex-girlfriend wrote her thesis 22 years ago on the topic "Money buys education." At that time, I was so naive and stupid not to want to understand it, as many in my circle had success through the second educational path. Today, with 2 children and the possibility to invest money in them, I understand it even more.

Today, with 2 children and the possibility to invest money in them, I understand it all the more.

That is not wrong and yet not right: The younger the children, the cheaper (almost free) is what promotes their education and lays the foundation for later educational success. What is omitted here cannot be made up for by money later. The problem: This requires parental commitment in the right places. And today especially also the omission of all sorts of nonsense. Which presupposes the ability to recognize nonsense as such. Later needs and ideas can of course be met much more easily with money than without. And access to circles that form the later "Vitamin B" is usually available for money or scholarships.