They Told Us, Immigrants Can't Go to Gymnasium 😱🇩🇪How Our American Kids Got into a German Gymnasium

Here's our story of how we got two of our American children into a German gymnasium. As you can tell from the title of our video - it was not easy! It was quite the challenge, especially because we had to figure out the whole process with our basic German skills just months after moving to Germany in February of 2021. There's a lot of debate in Germany on the secondary school system as it is and how there's a lot of pressure on students in fourth grade to choose which kind of school they will attend - Gymnasium, Realschule, or Mittleschule (Hauptschule). German friends - let us know your experience and what you think of the system in the comments!

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//CHAPTERS//
0:00 - Autumn scenes from the river in our town
00:58 - Intro - the German secondary school system
5:17 - How Grundschule began when we arrived
8:07 - Their teachers began to say they needed to go to Gymnasium
9:35 - We visited our first Gymnasium, and it didn't go well!
15:48 - We began talking to other Gymnasiums
18:23 - We created a backup plan with other Gymnasiums & Realschules but were still worried