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The annual school leaving survey provides a good overview of the career prospects of Offenbach young people in the leaving classes.
This year, between May and July, corona-related screen interviews were carried out online in grades 9 and 10 of the secondary and secondary schools, as well as the vocational classes. In addition to personal and social statistical data, the pupils’ experiences, wishes and plans were queried.
“The survey of school leavers provides an important basis for adapting or supplementing existing support structures in the next step,” explains Mayor Sabine Groß. “This year it is particularly clear how strongly the pandemic has affected the lives of children and young people and how urgently catch-up projects are therefore needed.” Corona pandemic, lockdown and the associated school closings have marked the transition from school to work for many Offenbach youth made more difficult, and the final classes in 2020 and 2021 were exposed to special learning conditions. Therefore, the school leaving survey with questions about the transition from school to training was supplemented by a series of corona questions in order to gain knowledge about the preferred follow-up perspectives of young people, their learning situation under corona conditions and the impact of the pandemic on their personal life situation . A clear picture emerged here: 70 percent of those questioned aim to obtain a higher educational qualification, in 2020 this was only 61.8 percent (2019: 59 percent), and only 9.1 percent opted for vocational training. In previous years, the proportion of young people who wanted to start their professional life with an apprenticeship was still 23.1 (2020) and 14.1 percent in 2019. Whether Corona or economic fluctuations: The proportion of those who 14 days before the end of the school year not yet know which way they will take, comparatively high – in 2020 this was only 1.5 percent, but 9 percent in 2019.
As the main reason for attending secondary school, 69.1 percent of the young people surveyed cited the desire to achieve a higher school diploma (62 percent in 2020). 16.6 percent simply want to continue going to school (2020: 10 percent), 7.4 percent want to go to secondary school because they have not found an apprenticeship position. In 2020 this was 9.2 percent.
Around a third of those surveyed (35.6 percent) think they would have done better without the Corona crisis. 46.3 percent agreed with the statement that Corona had worsened their chances of training. However, almost half of those surveyed, 45.3 percent, liked the fact that they didn’t have to go to school every day during the lockdown – only 30 percent would have preferred to go to school and 24.7 percent were undecided at this point. Nevertheless, 57 percent of young people rated the learning conditions at school as better than at home. 61.8 percent rated the schools’ crisis management in the corona pandemic as good, only 17.8 percent were of the opinion that the school could have done more. 20.3 percent were undecided at this point. This year’s school leaving survey is reflected in the OloV control group of the city of Offenbach (OloV stands for “Optimization of local placement work in the transition from school to work”).
The detailed report is available at: https://www.offenbach.de/uebergang-schule-beruf
(Text: PM City Offenbach)
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