Vocational School and Learning... In this notebook entry, I just want to describe how it is to attend a vocational school in Germany. Of course the experiences for this will vary depending on school and teachers. We only had to attend school one out of three weeks. This year had been quite difficult not in relation to the schoolwork, but very annoying and asking for a lot of patience. Most teachers didn't seem to be the least bit motivated. Many times they didn't even came to class or were just there to open the room, before leaving again. Other teachers were physically there and uploading work to the online school site, but never explaining or teaching anything and certainly not answering questions. At the beginning of the year there were 75% of the students on time and at least a bit motivated, but after this year we had only around 10% of the students who were attending classes regularly. When there were at least a few lessons, they were so easy, that it was just boring for most students. I can understand that it must be also difficult for teachers to see demotivated students and there are a lot of them in public vocational school. So it seems a bit like a ring of despair, where one group affects another and it is difficult to see where it started. But how can a school exist in such a way? And when I see this school it is quite clear why there are only 10% of the students are passing the final exam after three years... And why 95% of the students are failing the intermediate examination. For most of the students it's good, that there is no need to pass the intermediate exam for the permission for taking the finals.