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Re:Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an... by neuronic on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:26AM (#28585050)
Yes and what does that mean? That the system puts a disadvantge on people with difficult backgrounds.

I have non-academic parents and the system sure as hell made me understand that very well at a young age. The folks with attorneys and doctors as parents had it way easier...

It took a lot of additional energy to be able to go to "Gymnasium" in Bavaria. In the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, were I was born, this was much easier though.

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Re:Was Germany’s 19th century industrial expansion due to an... by bonoboTP on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:40PM (#28585692)
> It took a lot of additional energy to be able to go to "Gymnasium" in Bavaria. In the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, were I was born, this was much easier though.

This is one of the very few aspects that socialist/Eastern Bloc countries actually did better than the capitalist Western ones. Working-class kids had a fairly equal opportunity at getting into the same schools as the rich kids.

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