Teacher wears baseball cap – school authorities threaten him with consequences: “Completely out of time”. Marcus Burkert (48), a teacher at the Josef Dosch primary school in Gauting, says yes, the Starnberg State School Authority says no.

Burkert is a civil servant and, when asked what is important to him and what he wants to teach the children, says “empathy, respect and social interaction” “I believe that every person is allowed to develop freely. Completely different things are important to me”