Young teachers feel humiliated by ritual: “Trainers make it clear that it is expected”. “We were told that we had better come up with something good,” said Yvonne Walters.
The Education and Science Union (GEW) is aware of the strange custom. The North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Education says that the training school should not provide any entertainment at all. Only the use of school canteens or kiosks "is of course possible"