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German term or phrase:	Bildungsnotstandsgebiet
English translation:	educational disaster area
Entered by:	Bianca AH

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6:50am Mar 9, 2006

German to English translations [PRO]
Linguistics / Jungendsprache

German term or phrase: Bildungsnotstandsgebiet

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Juengst noch mussten wir lediglich den allweil ueblichen Unmut ueber die Jugend von heute hegen: ein einziger unverstaendlicher Brei sei sie, ein Klump aus Unbildung und schlechten Absichten, eine in ihrer Gesamtheit zu spaerlich bekleidete Generation in sprachlicher Schieflage.
Eben noch war der Herr von den UN da, um nach Botswana und Malawi auch das **Bildungsnotstandsgebiet** Deutschland abzumahnen.

TIA!

Bianca AH

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Answers: 67

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Clarification request(s) and response

Bianca AH: 3:15pm Mar 9, 2006: Thanks everyone!

educational disaster area

Explanation:
'Educational disaster area' garners a few google hits. If you browse through the corresponding texts, it seems that most of them refer to particular schools, districts etc. which is what you are looking for, isn't it?

Selected response from:

Barbara Wiegel
Russian Federation

Note from asker to answerer

Thanks, Barbara. I'm going to go with your suggestion. Cheers, Bianca.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

educational wasteland

Harald Kastler

3 +3

educational disaster area

Barbara Wiegel

critical state of education in...

Henry Schroeder

Answers

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

educational wasteland

Explanation:
While *Notstandsgebiet* is more literally translated as *depressed area* or *distressed area*, it seems that the context aims to express satyrical or even cynical connotations which are better conveyed by the suggested translation.

Harald Kastler
Philippines
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German

1 hr confidence:

critical state of education in...

Explanation:
This is how I would phrase it in English.

Henry Schroeder
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

educational disaster area

Explanation:
'Educational disaster area' garners a few google hits. If you browse through the corresponding texts, it seems that most of them refer to particular schools, districts etc. which is what you are looking for, isn't it?

Reference: http://www.google.de/search?q=%22educational+disaster+area%2...

Barbara Wiegel
Russian Federation
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Note from asker to answerer

Thanks, Barbara. I'm going to go with your suggestion. Cheers, Bianca.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Diana Loos

1 hr

-> thanks!

agree

Rachel Ward

1 hr

-> thanks!

neutral

Henry Schroeder: Isn't disaster overdoing it a little in the context of Germany? Perhaps it's because I went to school in the Bronx. One might call parts of the Bronx an educational disaster area, but does anything in Germany correspond to that?

1 hr

-> It's exaggerated, but so is the German Notstand. I can't really comment on the educational system nowadays - I grew up in the GDR & went through a very rigid but nonetheless comprehensive school education.

agree

David Moore: @ Henry Schroeder: You should live in Lower Saxony - you'd know what an educational disaster area REALLY is...unmotivated teachers, uncontrolled schoolchildren - we've got the lot!!!

1 hr

-> Thanks. Can't really comment on the state of the nation - have got no first-hand experience (no kids) and had the "honor" of being educated in the GDR

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PRO (3): Henry Schroeder, LegalTrans_, cis-med

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German: Bildungsnotstandsgebiet

English translation: educational disaster area