‘If you can afford it, you can only send your children to private schools’ – 44% of first-graders do not have sufficient German language skills to follow lessons in Vienna

Across Western multicultural Europe, in the cities with the highest amounts of diversity, private schools are growing the fastest as liberal urban professional flee to their various bubbles

By Remix News Staff
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No matter how much the left blusters, obfuscates, and censors, there is no denying the ongoing education disaster spreading across Western Europe due to mass immigration. As the latest figures from Vienna show, there is little hope of real improvement in the future. They have no real answer other than to hypocritically shelter their own children from the catastrophe they helped create.

The latest data shows that of the 16,700 first-graders in Austria’s largest city, Vienna, more than 44 percent do not have sufficient German language skills to follow lessons. That totals 7,400 students. The figure is incredible.

The data is also far worse than just six years ago. Then, in the 2018/19 school year, 30 percent of students fell into this category, who were classified as “special needs students” due to this serious language deficiency.

The idea that these troubled students are all simply newcomers who will eventually integrate into Austrian society is met with a sobering reality.

Although the increase is in part due to the massive increase in foreigners coming to Austria in recent years due to family reunification, an incredible 60 percent of these “special needs” students who are not proficient in German were actually born in Austria.

Commentary writer for Austrian newspaper Krone, Andreas Mölzer, points out what this means in terms of future integration.

“This means they grow up in families and closed parallel societies that simply refuse integration. Integration into our social system and our cultural fabric depends primarily on language acquisition,” he writes.

Furthermore, he points out the obvious outcome of this development for the future.

“And all those children with a migration background who only learn German with difficulty and often only at a rudimentary level in school are at risk of entering life without a qualification and with limited career prospects,” writes Mölzer.

Beyond the struggles of these students, they make up such an incredibly large share of students in Vienna that they are sure to drag down the rest of the students in their classes. The obvious outcome is that more and more White Austrians are sending their children to private schools and even protesting against schools with a high proportion of foreigners — all while continuing to vote left. Many of these native-born ethnic Austrians either already live in wealthier neighborhoods, vote left, and live in districts where the migration percentage of children in the local schools is extremely low, or they send their children to private schools — while creating ample excuses as to why they are taking that route.

Meanwhile, poorer ethnic Austrians are stuck with the problems in the increasingly foreign neighborhoods that make up Vienna. For the wealthier, left-wing Austrians, these people not only do not overly matter, but if they complain, they are smeared as racist and bigoted.

Mölzer is open about this trend.

“Moreover, (students who cannot comprehend German) logically hinder the learning process and instruction for native-born children. No wonder, then, that in Vienna, if you can afford it, you can only send your children to private schools,” he wrote.

The trend of private schools is growing across the entire multicultural left, with White parents fleeing the public school system in cities like Paris or Berlin, where private schools are “booming.” More and more parents are turning away from Europe’s formerly successful public schools and sending their children on the private route.

The education situation in Austria, overall, is extremely poor. In 2025, there are 46,385 students nationwide who are unable to follow lessons, which was a slight reduction from the previous school year, which had 48,450 students who could not follow lessons because they lacked sufficient German. However, the overall trend line has been disastrous over the last 10 years, dating back to when Austria truly opened itself up to mass immigration.

It is not just language issues. As Remix News has long documented, teachers are dropping out of the Austrian school system in droves due to violence, disrespect, and even serious cases of rape. In one case, seven foreign students were found guilty this year of gang raping, blackmailing, and setting their teacher’s apartment on fire.

Recently, NEOS Education Minister Wiederkehr touted “achievements” in integration in the Austrian school system, prompting Austrian Freedom Party’s (FPÖ) education spokesperson, MP Hermann Brückl, to sharply criticized the situation.

“When one in four students now speaks a language other than German at home, and the number of students with special educational needs due to insufficient German skills is exploding, then we are no longer talking about a challenge, but a full-blown educational emergency. German is becoming a foreign language in our own classrooms because the established political parties are prioritizing their multicultural fantasies over the well-being of Austrian children. The future of our youth is being recklessly squandered here!” said Brückl.

He pointed to the situation in Vienna as “particularly dramatic.”

“Muslims already constitute the largest religious group in public compulsory schools, and in some districts over 70 percent of students do not speak German as their primary language. Instead of demanding achievement and integration, parallel societies are being cultivated directly in our schools. The result is a third more students in German language support courses and a doubling of the number of students in special education classes since 2019. The system is not on the verge of collapse, it has already collapsed,” the FPÖ MP stated.

Brückl’s data about the religious composition of Vienna’s schoolchildren is accurate. Of those enrolled at elementary, middle, and special schools for the 2024/25 academic year, 41.2% of the 112,600 students were of the Islamic faith, according to new figures from the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF). The data highlights the massive demographics changes Vienna is experiencing.

Brückl’s party, the FPÖ, is currently the most popular party in the country. A poll from Nov. 4 showed that 37 percent of Austrians are ready to vote the FPÖ into power, nearly double the second-place ÖVP.

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