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Growing No. of parents educate their kids in Austria to escape the Hungarian education system
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Thousands of children commute to school every day from Hungary to Austria. One of the most popular places is Oberwart (Felsőőr). Both parents and their children think there are numerous benefits to Austrian education, and it is definitely worth getting up earlier.
ATV reports that according to Austrian statistics, approximately 2,000 Hungarian children attend Austrian schools (no exact number is known).
These children commute to school every day from Hungary to Austria, and all of them think it is worth it. A good example is Szombathely, where there are three scheduled buses to Oberwart (Felsőőr in Hungarian). These kids need to get up a little bit earlier than their peers do because the first bus leaves at 06:16.
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Why is it better?
Parents believe that the whole atmosphere is different in an Austrian school: the kids are different, and everything is simply calmer and happier. They just want stress-free student years for their kids, not to mention the better quality of education (especially in foreign languages).
Parents believe that they are “rescuing” their children from Hungarian education, which is considered inferior. Both parents and children agree that the atmosphere in the school is completely different in Austria: calmer and stress-free.
A parent told ATV that the kids are not as nervous or tired as the kids here in Hungary. They are calmer because the workload is not as heavy, there are no sudden tests, everything is scheduled ahead so the children can always be prepared and know exactly what to learn and by what deadline. They still have to learn everything, but it is simply done differently. The vocational school in Oberwart is very well equipped too: there are computers everywhere.
I believe everything but the “not as tired”… a young child on the bus for 3-4 hours a day, wake up 2 hours earlier than compares to local school wake up time… and not tired. Bullshit. I would say they are hell tired but it worth.