Well, you don't have the right to a place at a particular school, but if you have applied for a place at a gymnasium and you don't get a place at your first or second choice, then you have … (View Post)

What do you think I have written that is "wrong"? What makes you think that I think all pupils in NRW go to "the same school from 11 to 16"? Here's something in English (thou… (View Post)

Look, this is typical of you. First you wrote "Germany of course has grammar schools, selective gymnasiums, across the country." I pointed out this is untrue. You doubled down and said &quo… (View Post)

No this is not true. As a parent living in NRW I probably know a hell of a lot more about this than you do (which seems to be precisely nothing). Admission to gymnasiums in NRW and some other German … (View Post)

Not true. Gymnasiums in NRW (the biggest German state by population), for example, are not allowed to select pupils by academic ability at the start of secondary school. Parents choose the type of sc… (View Post)