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With the sculpture “Lady Middle School” from the practical class: Gina Hanke was a passionate educator.
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Headmistress Gina Hanke says goodbye to the Unterschleißheim middle school.
She has accomplished a lot in her 17 years.
Unterschleißheim – She brought her students and the school band with her.
460 children and young people came to the community center to say goodbye.
“Don’t make speeches for so long,” she warned the mayor, colleagues and school council.
After 17 years, Gina Hanke has had a touching farewell as head of the Unterschleißheim middle school.
The 66-year-old thoroughbred educator still finds it difficult to say goodbye.
It is not yet known who will succeed her.
The students Suela, Hawar and David remembered many beautiful moments on stage.
“Who is supposed to keep the school going now?” asked deputy principal Silke Braumandl.
The special “Hanke enthusiasm” would have carried away students and colleagues.
“Who is going to fill this gap?” Mayor Böck jokingly offered her a job in the building department.
Because when there was construction work at her school, she knew exactly what she wanted.
“Pedagogical is mine”
Gina Hanke has accomplished a lot for middle school.
“The educational aspect is mine,” she says.
In 2007 she came as deputy principal and unexpectedly had to fill big shoes.
Rector Peter Thiele died suddenly while hiking during the Whitsun holidays in 2008.
“It was tough for all of us,” she remembers.
Colorful paintings shine from the wall behind her desk, painted by her “sparrows,” as she calls her students.
Art and ethics - she gave these subjects the importance they deserved, supported school social work, founded a support association and initiated student exchanges with Poland.
In her teaching staff she paid attention to competence and quality.
A school that has to accept everyone
Students from Unter- and Oberschleißheim, Haimhausen, even Eching, Freising and Moosburg attend the school on Johann-Schmidt-Straße.
Six classes are held every year, based on qualifications, secondary school leaving certificates, practical classes or M-trains.
This is a springboard to success for almost everyone: whether they become a journeyman, employee, master craftsman, engineer or return as a teacher, like a former student who now teaches on Johann-Schmidt-Straße.
“We are the school that has to accept everyone,” says Hanke.
Empathy and patience are just as important as the school material.
She considers the middle school class teacher principle to be an advantage because one teacher teaches a child in almost all subjects: “If I have it in math and can support it there, I will slowly get it in German and the other subjects as well.” Teachers are caregivers and role model: “You have to treat your children lovingly and consistently and take your parents seriously.” They are often even more afraid of middle school “because they have experienced so much failure.”
She had to study for Bavaria
It's very quiet in the house today.
The classes are ice skating or sledding.
“The children are fascinated by the mountains.” Unfortunately, some of them couldn’t go “because they don’t have any winter clothes.” Teachers had handed out ski pants and shoes that had long since been discarded.
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The school family was important to Hanke.
“We have 32 nations here,” she says proudly, “and peace,” she adds.
An artistic collage of peace doves in the stairwell illustrates this. So that all students get to know German traditions, the college celebrates the Maypole Festival, Advent or Carnival.
In the teachers' room there is a 1.80 meter cardboard figure in a basketball uniform; it has the face of Gina Hanke.
At the age of twelve she played basketball and became junior champions four times with her team in Halle.
In 1976 she began her teaching studies and taught in Dresden.
In 1990 she moved to Munich with her family, but had to continue her studies.
She quickly completed courses and worked in the Anderwerk social project.
After working at four middle schools - she was never employed as a civil servant - she arrived in Unterschleißheim, where she now lives.
“I've always worked, so I'm a typical Eastern woman,” says Hanke, who seems to keep working fit.
The mother of two and grandmother is enjoying her new freedom with her family, traveling and getting involved - soon also in the Lions Club.
Further news from Unterschleißheim and the Munich district can be found here.