Gymnasium or Realschule?

What you need:

• Your child's personality analysis

It used to be easier. The primary school teacher made a recommendation in the report card of the fourth primary school class which secondary school the child should attend. Misjudgments and parental criticism of the teacher's judgment were part of the process Everyday school life. Since these recommendations no longer exist or have become non-binding, you as a parent and your child are faced with a difficult decision.

With the zeitgeist to high school

• First, get rid of the zeitgeist-oriented notion that every child has to high school visit and absolutely High School do. The impression seems to prevail that without a high school diploma there would be no professional future. Too often the best interests of the child are neglected.
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• Free yourself from the idea that visiting a secondary school to be judged on a socially deprived level and only one high school student shapes the social reputation.
• The starting point must be your child's intellectual abilities. These were at least partially revealed in elementary school. Try to identify what your child is interested in and ready to get involved in.

School dropouts are demotivated

• Try to be objective. It is fatal if you transfer your wishes onto your child. It is of no use if you wish your child to become a doctor or a lawyer and therefore absolutely have to go to high school and do a high school diploma. If the children have difficulties dealing with theoretical learning content, they will torment themselves for many years and all too often fail.


How does the registration at the grammar school work? - Informative

After a child has successfully completed elementary or middle school, they can, at ...

• Remember that the learning content at the grammar school is usually very theoretical, while at the secondary school it has a certain practical orientation.
• If your child has difficulty memorizing texts or learning content, they will have problems in high school. Even if it survives the first few years, you run the risk that it might increase in number Complexity of the subject matter from around the seventh or eighth grade in high school fails and leaves school got to. The psychological effect has a very detrimental effect on the child's psyche with a probability bordering on certainty. They leave school with the feeling that they have failed and have to start over at another school or even in an apprenticeship with the feeling of defeat.
• So when you are faced with the decision whether high school or junior high school is the right way to go, do not overwhelm your child. Only register it at high school if you can be sure that it will come to an end this way. Remember that the dropout rate at high school is relatively high.

Realschule as a safe start in life

• If you have any doubts as to whether your child will survive high school, you should definitely prefer secondary school. If your child proves to be capable of developing in this direction, he or she can still switch from Realschule to Gymnasium and take the Abitur. For precisely this reason, the legislature has opened up access between schools and wants children in particular challenge and encourage, who develop after initial difficulties in such a way that they also have a future at high school Find.
• Remember that the secondary school leaving certificate is also an absolutely honorable degree that opens the way to many professions. If your child shows manual skills, you should definitely encourage them in this direction. Do not force them to take up a theoretical profession. Any other profession is just as honorable as the one that requires a high school diploma and university studies. After all, without these professions our society could not exist.
• Forget the populism of many politicians who encourage parents to send their child to high school in any case. There is no point in forcing everyone to lock step. People have different abilities and dispositions that need to be used properly. As a parent, you set the course for your child.