Is the school obliged to provide mother tongue education to my child?
Germany - Berlin
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Do you have a child aged 12-16?

School are not obliged to offer mother tongue instruction.

 

The Berlin Education Act allows schools to offer pupils of non-German language of origin mother tongue teaching. The schools can use the offers of third parties (§ 15 Abs. 3 Education Act Berlin). At present, mother tongue supplementary teaching (MEU) is offered by diplomatic missions in the form of so-called consular education, mostly in Turkish, but also in Portuguese, Italian, Macedonian and Serbian.

 

Either elementary and secondary schools in Berlin offer bilingual instruction:

 

In elementary and secondary schools of the “Staatliche Europa-Schulen Berlin” (SESB) bilingual instruction in nine language combinations is offered: German-English, German-French, German-Greek, German-Italian, German-Polish, German-Portuguese, German-Russian, German-Spanish and German-Turkish (http://www.berlin.de/sen/bildung/schule/besondere-schulangebote/staatliche-europaschule/).

 

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