Schools|PS’s Riikka Purra comments on research results in X, according to which poor reading skills cause problems for the vast majority of children with immigrant backgrounds.
Finance minister and chairman of Basic Finns Riikka Purra take message service in X stand for a new study published on Monday. According to the study 61 percent of children with an immigrant background have such poor reading skills that they cannot cope in society.
According to Purra, society must require and demand language skills and integration, instead of society increasing the teaching of immigrants’ own mother tongues, interpretation, news in their own language, integration and “increasingly looser requirements”.
I bite in addition, the Minister of Education has commented on the research Anders Adlercreutz (r), who in an interview with HS brought up the problematic nature of school shopping.
“Segregation on a general level is a problem and of course school shopping exacerbates that problem,” said Adlercreutz.
According to the minister, the government is trying to address the situation by increasing the teaching of the mother tongue in primary schools by two hours a week.
Chairman of the Left Alliance, former Minister of Education Lee Andersson in turn replied to Purra in Xthat teaching one’s mother tongue supports the learning of other languages.
Jyväskylä the study by the university and the Ministry of Education and Culture (OKM) examined the skills of students with an immigrant background and factors related to it in the light of the 2022 Pisa study. The last time a similar survey was completed using oversampling was completed in 2012.
So-called second-generation immigrants also have clearly lower reading skills than students who do not have an immigrant background. Of the former, 39 percent had poor reading skills, and of the latter, 18 percent.
“It seems that a student’s immigrant background in itself does not necessarily predict weak competence in the Pisa exam, but the essential factors are deficiencies in language skills and the low socio-economic status of the family”, OKM’s press release states.
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