Greek language at the European School Munich

Does anyone have any information/comments about the Greek section at the European School in Munich?

Our daughter is trilingual and it just makes sense to us to send her to the European School (assuming she gets in under the Cat III) which celebrates the differences of the students. However, we have heard that some sections are not managed well, and teachers are leaving halfway through the school term and not being replaced. If we send her to a private school and pay out of our own pockets, we expect that the school is managed properly, and that our child is receiving a proper education.

I have no idea but one of my fellow German course classmates is a Greek-language teacher at a German school and I can ask her advice if you like. She has taught in other parts of Germany as well. Can only get a response on Monday - perhaps if you PM me your email address - I can pass it on and you can talk directly with her?

mmm, all the above is definitely true. No school is ideal but for my purposes this one is better than the German system. The fees for CAT III are nothing like the fees for MIS / BIS or for private education in UK / Ireland. I have a friend with a child in the Greek section who was very unhappy. You are not allowed (under normal circumstances) to change sections. Once the child reaches HS then they have to choose their main section anyway (and it can't be Greek!)... Like in most schools I reckon everything depends on the teacher you get.

Hmmm, I would be interested in speaking to that friend of yours directly. Could you check with your friend if it is alright that I contact him/her and pm their information to me? I would want to know if the child was unhappy with the teacher, or unhappy with the other children in the class, or was it the curriculum/courses of study.

I went to ESM myself ( only high school though ) and never had any problems with teachers changing.

Most teachers are appointed by the government of the country they are from, so if a teacher changed during the school year, there must have been some problem with that. Personally I or any of my siblings, of which one still attends ESM, have never experienced it though. The relatively small Greek section only exists in primary school (years 1-5) and for secondary school the Greeks are merged into one of the other language sections, but still have Greek taught to them as a mother tongue language with the other subjects taught in English, French or German.

The advantage of the Greek section being small is that class sizes are smaller than for other language sections.

I know a lot of people at the European school and have tried many times to get my child into the English section but without success as we are not Patentamt etc. However - only one disadvantage I have observed of the smaller sections in the school such as Dutch and to some extent French is that the classes are so small that the children are constantly together and it often leads to bickering and problems. In larger classes you can choose your friends ! Isn't there a greek school in Munich - I thought I heard something about that ...