Generation Haram

Melisa Erkurt's book should be required reading in the training of educators and teachers. It's a powerful work! Melisa Erkurt came to Austria with her parents from Bosnia as a child. She studied and now works as a teacher and journalist. She has succeeded, but she is an exception. At the end of a school year, she sends her class off with the knowledge that most of her students will never speak German well enough to break free from their predetermined fate. A generation is growing up without language and self-worth, one that no one listens to because they cannot articulate themselves. Meanwhile, others are discussing the cultural struggle in the classroom. Melisa Erkurt lends her voice to the losers of the education system. It is not they who need to change, but the school system that must find new paths.