Maybe important to point out that schools with 70-90% migrant children is the exception, not the norm and limited to very specific contexts in a handful of majo

Maybe important to point out that schools with 70-90% migrant children is the exception, not the norm and limited to very specific contexts in a handful of major cities. Those major cities, especially Berlin and some in the mid-west also tend to be quite broke exacerbating the issue. The bigger problem for the German public education system (and there is no private education worth speaking of in Germany) is that the federal states (which are responsible for schools) have systematically underinvested in teacher recruitment for the past two decades. The pipeline is empty, a large share of teachers will go into retirement in the next 15 years and politicians (of all parties) have so far ignored realistic projections concerning the number of teachers required. So yes, reducing English lessons to improve German reading comprehension makes sense in a way. But what would make even more sense would be to drastically increase funding for teaching positions to ensure that kids don't loose two-three weeks worth of school per year, because too many teachers are sick and neither German nor English lessons are taking place.