Court decides: School reference for Greifswald students exposed!

Court decides: School reference for Greifswald students exposed!

In the past few days, an incident at the Fischer School in Greifswald causes excitement. A ninth grader who showed a right-wing extremist "white power" gesture during a school trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial should initially be punished with a school reference. However, the Greifswald administrative court has temporarily overridden this reference, since the decision was considered formally and materially incorrect. This rush decision, after the parents of the student had objected to the reference to the reference, is reported, as [ndr] (https://www.ndr.de/mecklenburg-vorpommern/betzlungsgericht-stoppt-schulver-fuer-greifswalder-schueler, whitus-100.html).

The incident itself was documented by a classmate and then spread on social media. Now the school reference is exposed to the final court decision. The State School Authority of Greifswald announced that it was originally planned against this decision after the Ministry of Education was originally planned to put both students at different schools. The details on the identity of the students involved remain anonymous for youth protection reasons, but the Situation remains tense because the legal disputes continue.

rising right -wing extremist incidents in schools

The incident in Greifswald is involved in a worrying development: An investigation into right-wing extremist incidents at schools in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania shows that such events have become more and more part of everyday school life. This raises the question of how schools and politics can act against these tendencies. [SPIEGEL] (https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/mecklenburg-vorpommern-rechtsextreme-vorfaelle-varta- normalitaet-a-5d4b582b-b88d-4df-aca9-f983fe922a) emphasizes that successful lessons in the shadow of such incidents takes place.

An example provides Stefan Tarnow, an 18-year-old student from Brandenburg and spokesman for the State Council of the students. He reports of swastikas in classrooms and growing spread of right -wing extremist ideologies in class. In a joint statement, the state student councils from several eastern federal states are calling for strengthening politics and social studies as well as further training for teachers to improve dealing with extremist ideas. There are even reports that teachers live in fear of not acting against right -wing extremists for fear of hostility.

A call to action

The results of a survey by the Thuringian teacher association are alarming: 38% of the members surveyed reported on right -wing extremist violence at schools. It is surprising that the aggressors were students in 68% of these cases, while in 20% the violence of parents was. Despite the obviously rising figures, the Ministries of Education see no need for action, but refer to existing strategies to combat these phenomena. The number of rights extreme incidents remains high, such as Tagesschau emphasized.

summarized can be said: The incident at the Fischer School is not alone. He reflects the pressing questions that must be discussed in connection with right -wing extremism in schools. It is in the interests of the company that schools become not only places of learning, but also to secure rooms for all students. Even if the legal dispute over the school reference continues, the discussion about extremist ideologies in schools must now be conducted.