German education not an exclusively German privilege

by The Manila Times

Mar 12, 2023 12:10 am

BEAMING with pride, Maia, Sansa and Natalia hold up their first-ever report cards to the camera.

The young girls are just three of a handful of first-graders who do not have any German language background and yet are enrolled in the German-speaking branch of the German European School Manila (GESM). All of them speak German in school. Otherwise, no one in their purely Filipino households speaks the language at home.

(From left) Seven-year-olds Sansa, Maia and Natalia are German school students from non-German-speaking families. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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