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In a troubling revelation from Vienna, a concerned grandparent, Bernhard K., has exposed a growing crisis in Austria’s kindergartens. Speaking to the Austrian news outlet Heute, he described the stark reality at his grandson’s school, where only three of 25 classmates are fluent German speakers.
During breaks and after-school activities, the children revert to Arabic, leaving his grandson isolated. When asked how the boy copes, Bernhard’s response was shocking: “He’s trying to learn Arabic! How else is he supposed to communicate with his schoolmates?”
This is not an isolated incident but a symptom of a broader demographic shift. According to the Institute for Family Research, one in five children under 18 in Austria, roughly 340,000, lacks an Austrian passport.
Meanwhile, the number of native Austrian youths has plummeted from 1.6 million to 1.2 million. The rapid transformation is reshaping the nation’s schools and threatening the cultural fabric of its communities.
As The Gateway Pundit has previously reported, Muslims have now become the largest religious group in Vienna’s compulsory schools, comprising a striking 41.2% of all students across primary, secondary, and vocational education levels.
Meanwhile, just 34.5% of students now identify as Christian (17.5% Catholic and 14.5% Orthodox), more than 23% have no religious affiliation, and the remaining minority includes Buddhists (0.2%), Jews (0.1%), and others (0.9%).
“This is no longer immigration. This is displacement,” said Maximilian Weinzierl, national council member and leader of the FPÖ’s youth wing. “41.2% of Muslim students—that’s no longer a minority, that’s the new majority. What we as the FPÖ have been warning about for decades, but which was always dismissed as right-wing scaremongering, is now reality: Immigration has completely overrun our country.”
The situation in Vienna’s kindergartens is likely widespread. Professor Bernhard Koch of the Pedagogical University of Tirol is awaiting a critical report from Statistics Austria, expected to reveal how many kindergarten groups now have more than 33% or 50% non-native German speakers.
Koch suspects the data will confirm his fears that German-speaking children are becoming such a minority that “integration” has become a hollow buzzword.
In an interview with Heute, Koch outlined the troubling dynamic driving this shift. “Immigrants settle in areas where other people from the same country of origin have already settled,” he explained. “Long-established residents withdraw from these rooms.
Kindergartens do not become more diverse with regard to the educational background of the parents, but more homogeneous—often in a foreign language”. This pattern, he warns, is eroding the educational environment for native Austrians.
The consequences of an uncontrolled influx of newcomers have led to worsening educational outcomes for native children and a growing sense of alienation in their own communities.
The upcoming Statistics Austria report could serve as a wake-up call for lawmakers, who must act quickly to address this crisis before Austria’s cultural and educational heritage is irreparably lost.
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