The people of Baden-Württemberg rate the schools in their state as mediocre. In the education barometer for the Munich Ifo Institute, the citizens surveyed in the southwest gave the schools in the state an average grade of 2.95. Exactly 6 percent of those surveyed even gave them a grade of 5 or 6.
The Bavarians have the highest opinion of their schools with an average grade of 2.77, followed by Hamburg (2.92) and Saxony (2.94). Baden-Württemberg is in fourth place with its assessment (2.95). Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt are at the bottom (both 3.17) and Bremen is at the bottom with 3.50. The national average is 3.0.
The Ifo Institute surveyed around 9,700 people in Germany from April to June. The samples were also representative at the state level, it said.
Those surveyed agree that government spending on schools should increase: approval ranges from 73 percent in Bavaria to 86 percent in Brandenburg. Baden-Württemberg is in between at 79 percent.
Questions about migration and teacher shortages
When asked what impact immigration would have on future student performance, 66 percent of respondents from Baden-Württemberg chose the answer options “rather negative” and “strongly negative”.
According to the survey, 77 percent of respondents from the southwest are of the opinion that the shortage of teachers has a rather negative or strongly negative impact on future student performance.
When it comes to teaching good reading, writing and arithmetic skills, the assessments of the federal states vary widely. In Bavaria, for example, 39 percent believe that their state is better at this than others. In Baden-Württemberg, Saxony and Hamburg, the figure is 28 to 29 percent.
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