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Luise Wehmeyer is a trainee teacher. A few hours a month she works at a high-needs school in western Germany. Her goal: to give underprivileged kids a better chance at success.
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00:00Luise is facing a challenge. The student teacher is assisting in a high-need school.
00:21Luise's role at the school is part of a regional government scheme to support schools in deprived areas.
00:27The hope is that student teachers like Luise will take on such jobs in the future.
00:31This school in Bochum is officially classed as being high-needs.
00:35According to a nationwide governmental program, around one in ten schools in Germany is in need of support.
00:41Large numbers of children attending such schools live in poverty, in non-german-speaking families or require extra tuition.
00:49It is just so, that the school system goes out of the way that the parents can be supported.
00:55And that it is not the goal that everything is done in the school.
00:59And that is, if you look at how different the conditions are for the children at home, fatal.
01:04Luise's program aims to fight this educational inequity.
01:08But the school would like to see even more support from the government.
01:11The problem, what we have here, is that as a point of the point of the problem,
01:14we are determined to be especially supported,
01:18so that we can support these particular children a special support.
01:24And for that we just need the support of the politics.
01:27Luise's help is much appreciated.
01:43And what about Luise? Will she return after graduating?
01:47I believe so.
01:49Because I have the feeling that I have to be, here can I really make a difference
01:51and here I can also be especially to use it.
01:54I'll see you soon.
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