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Markus Lanz discusses education and schools with his guests. Problems are mentioned enough. Nobody has any solutions.
Frankfurt – “Children are the future” as the saying goes, but is this future currently being lost? The conditions in the German education system are getting worse, violence is increasing, and the level of education is declining. Markus Lanz discussed possible solutions with his guests on April 4th.
At the beginning of the discussion, Karin Prien, CDU Vice Chairwoman and Minister of Culture of Schleswig-Holstein, had to fend off a concerted attack from Markus Lanz, who wanted to know why the CDU wanted to abolish citizens' money. Of course, she only wants to a limited extent; social security should not be completely abolished, but according to Prien it is about something very simple: “Everyone who can work should work.”
Markus Lanz's guests on April 4th. © Screenshot ZDF
For this purpose, citizens' money should be renamed basic security and the rules should become tougher. However, Prien was unable to explain exactly where the difference to the current reality lies. It became clear that she was concerned with redistribution: “More education, less social benefits” is the motto, but to what extent the removal of funds for the currently estimated 14,000 so-called “total refusers” was intended to rehabilitate the budget remained open.
The guests at Markus Lanz on April 4th
Karin Prien |
CDU vice-chairman |
Anja Mundt-Backhaus |
Headmistress |
Aladin El-Mafaalani |
sociologist |
Manfred Lütz |
theologian |
Markus Lanz and his guests talk about the German education system
“Citizen money has become a political fighting term,” stated Markus Lanz, but it was not clear how a renaming of social benefits, announcements that cannot be enforced, could help to restore the German economy to greater strength. The problems begin in schools, as Anja Mundt-Backhaus, head of a school with around 900 students in Hanover, reported. The students at her school come from around 40 nations, and six or seven different languages are spoken in one class, which inevitably leads to problems.
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However, this is not only due to families with a migrant background, but also to German parents who no longer read to their children and rather leave the upbringing to television or smartphones. All of this contributes to the school peace being increasingly disturbed: there are power struggles, the language is becoming brutal, there are attacks and status battles: “Social media has a devastating influence on children, but it is not a school problem, but a social problem.” said Mundt-Backhaus. Children often bring knives with them, often for protection on public transport.
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Integration and education expert Aladin El-Mafaalani also confirmed the impression that teachers often seem overwhelmed and that students increasingly no longer perceive schools as a place worth living in. Photographs are secretly taken or filmed in toilets and the images are posted on social media, which means that some children no longer dare to use the toilets.
Absurd situation, but why is it? Can everything just be attributed to the increasing use of cell phones and social media? In any case, Karin Prien spoke to Markus Lanz on ZDF in favor of a significant restriction on cell phone use: “TikTok is not for children under 16,” said the CDU politician, that was the recommendation of the company itself, which, however, does not really monitor it becomes.
Problems at schools – Markus Lanz discusses with his guests
Can cell phones even be banned or at least their use restricted? Or wouldn't strengthening media literacy make more sense? This was advocated by the theologian Manfred Lütz, who complained about an increasing decline in values in society. The relationship between parents and children has also changed; more and more educational tasks that were once taken on by parents at best are now being passed on to the school. Teachers are expected to take on educational tasks. But neither the teaching staff nor schools are designed to take on these tasks, explained El-Mafaalani. The question of security alone has been ignored for far too long. Security services, street workers, securing school routes: topics that just a few years ago would have been associated with run-down ghettos in American cities, but not with schools in German cities.
The discussion with Markus Lanz then slowly turned to a sensitive topic: the question of the extent to which some of these problems also have to do with the increase in children and young people from other countries, countries in which homosexuality is not tolerated and in which women have fewer rights have. “We try a lot, use cultural mediators, but we don’t reach all the children,” said Mundt-Backhaus with a certain resignation. Karin Prien added that the number of teachers is higher than ever, but the number of students is also increasing, especially those with a migration background or refugee background who need more attention. And over the next few years, over 30 percent of teachers retired. A devastating development that urgently calls for reform. Just like other things in a country that is confronted with an increasing number of construction sites, on whose solution a lot depends.
(Michael Meyns)