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Elementary school teacher in Brandenburg (symbolic image): Three quarters of those surveyed support the hiring of lateral entrants and student teachers
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Is your child affected by the teacher shortage?
62 percent of parents of school-age children say yes.
This was the result of a representative Forsa survey commissioned by the tutoring provider Studienkreis.
The parents stated that their children's lessons were canceled more often or that they were replaced at short notice.
A clear majority of 86 percent of the approximately 1,000 respondents assumes that the quality of the teaching will »seriously suffer« and that learning goals will not be achieved as a result.
They also agree that the social gap is widening because families have different ability to absorb learning gaps.
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With regard to their own child, however, according to Forsa, only a third of those surveyed assume that the teacher shortage will have a negative impact on their child's school grades.
Half-year reports are distributed in the federal states at the end of January and beginning of February.
Majority against reducing learning and exam content
Various considerations are being discussed in the federal states as short-term measures against the shortage of teachers.
However, they were received differently by the parents: three quarters of those surveyed supported the hiring of lateral entrants and student teachers.
Only a good four out of ten respondents find more digital offers such as learning videos for self-learning useful.
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Only one in five thinks it is a good idea to reduce learning and exam content and write fewer school subjects or simpler class tests.
Larger classes in particular are out of the question for parents: only three percent of those surveyed believe that the effects of the teacher shortage can be combated by setting up classes with, for example, 40 children.
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