Björn
Höcke
PISA
Study
AfD
Kompakt, December 3, 2019
[Björn Höcke is the Alternative für
Deutschland chairman in the eastern German state of Thüringen as well as leader
of the AfD delegation in the Thüringen legislature. He is a teacher and here
comments on the German results in the latest Program for International Student
Assessment.]
The
disastrous results of the current PISA study primarily demonstrate one thing:
Our demands for a reconsideration of an education policy of elementary
competences and skills like reading and writing as well as for the abolition of
such questionable teaching methods as “Writing through Hearing” are more
relevant than ever. As early as 2015, we demanded the abolition of this method,
yet the old parties retain it. The previous PISA results have primarily lead to
a glossed-over, not a performance oriented, system of grading. Only with the
AfD is there a performance oriented education policy! The already strained
situation in education policy will be consequently aggravated by the chaotic
immigration policy. The portion of migrants in the current study, greater than
that of 2015, in combination with the moreover striking scarcity of teachers,
has contributed considerably to the notably bad results in reading competence.
[Translated by Todd Martin]
