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Nightmares kept plaguing him - now a teacher reports on everyday life at a special needs school

2022-03-04T12:13:46.265Z


Nightmares kept plaguing him - now a teacher reports on everyday life at a special needs school Created: 03/04/2022Updated: 03/04/2022 13:07 By: Lisa Fischer Works through nightmares with his book: Ludwig Jäger from Bruges experienced a lot as a teacher at a support center that had a lasting impact on him. © Peter Weber As a teacher at a Bavarian support center for intellectual development, Lu


Nightmares kept plaguing him - now a teacher reports on everyday life at a special needs school

Created: 03/04/2022Updated: 03/04/2022 13:07

By: Lisa Fischer

Works through nightmares with his book: Ludwig Jäger from Bruges experienced a lot as a teacher at a support center that had a lasting impact on him.

© Peter Weber

As a teacher at a Bavarian support center for intellectual development, Ludwig Jäger experienced a lot with his students.

The man from Brucker wrote a book about his experiences – also with critical observations.

Fürstenfeldbruck

– Monika, Erwin, Ruth and Fritz are not just first names, no: In Ludwig Jäger's book "Hallo, Herr Jäger, Du..." there is a whole chapter behind each first name.

They are students.

Because Ludwig Jäger from Fürstenfeldbruck was a teacher at a school in Bavaria, a support center with a focus on intellectual development.

He wrote down the adventures and experiences with Monika, Erwin and 17 other students, some of whom haunted him in nightmares at night, and published them on 116 pages.

Every now and then Jäger expresses criticism of himself, as a teacher and as a person, but also of the school system.

For example, there is a boy from Eritrea whom the author calls "Jemal".

Jemal was mistakenly placed in the special needs school, writes Jäger.

Efforts to find another school were in vain.

And so teacher Jäger accompanies the refugee Jemal through everyday life at the special school, at the end of which Jemal's dream is destroyed by a tragic accident.

Erwin, a boy from another chapter, was a student in the first class that taught hunters.

Erwin was mentally handicapped.

And he, Jäger, studied education for the hard of hearing, not education for the mentally handicapped, he writes in his book.

"You're thrown in at the deep end and can't learn all that so quickly," Jäger recalled in an interview with the Tagblatt.

In the chapter "Erwin" he writes that far too much time had passed before he finally found the time to research Erwin's clinical picture.

"This is my destiny - I have to act, I have to teach, without knowing what it is actually necessary to know when doing this job," writes the author.

Erwin is a hyper-nervous student who makes obscene gestures, grabs his crotch, and harasses fellow students.

Again and again teacher Jäger gets into difficult situations with him in everyday school life, experiences first hand how his pupil wants to jump off the roof.

The worst scenes would haunt him to this day.

The fact that the events that happened more than ten years ago are now being published as a book was a spontaneous decision, says Jäger.

The 56-year-old from Brucker is now a teacher at the Cäcilienschule.

"I've only written down the experiences so far because I thought to myself, then it'll be quiet," says Jäger.

During his sabbatical year he had the idea of ​​publishing the stories about the individual fates of his former students.

All the boys and girls are now adults and no longer at school.

"A few were seriously ill and died," remembers Jäger.

Such experiences shape.

"And I notice that I'm also making learning progress myself," says Jäger.

Such encounters happen again and again.

"Then you ask yourself: is it important that he still learns arithmetic, or isn't it more important to celebrate his birthday?" says the 56-year-old.

That is – then as now – the exciting thing about the job: to reflect on “what life is actually about”.

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