That may be why the concern Thomas Morus's staff feels for its students seems tinged with a sense of estrangement.

ECONOMIST: Germany's Turkish minority

In one such school, Thomas Morus, only two or three of the 50 or so pupils who graduate each year find apprenticeships, the stepping-stone to employment for most young Germans.

ECONOMIST: Germany's Turkish minority

As a Hauptschule, Thomas Morus is in the lowest of the three orders of high school into which most German children are streamed, usually at ten but, in Berlin, at 12.

ECONOMIST: Germany's Turkish minority