Last
week,
the European edition of POLITICO published
an
article about the European Schools. The Euroschools rarely attract
any press
coverage and the internet has remained generally free of
journalists caring about our system until now. Once their article
appeared on the front page of their website, thousands of students
and parents instantly read their critique of the European Schools.
The
article was clearly a hit. After four days it remained the second
most read article on the POLITICO
website,
receiving even more views than the coverage of the Greek crisis. It
painted a misleading picture of a crumbling education system that
alienated most of its students through bureaucracy, and ignoring
nationality in a school system resembling a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Contact with students as well as graduates and parents upheld our
view that the article was misguided and prioritized controversy over
fact.
In fact, after talking to one of the students who was quoted in the
article, it surfaced that her positive outlook of the schools had
been overshadowed by cherry-picked criticisms.
