Saxon Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 7/38, pp.
2914-2915.
Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
Frau Friedel, you have said it was a failure to make the false
prognoses of ten years ago. I think certainly a gigantic failure was made in
the rural districts, because the numbers of the births were other than as you
have said. The numbers of births were then already high. It actually would have
need be seen if the numbers of those born in the years before 2010 had been
looked at. What has been done? – The Oberschulen
have been extensively closed.
In rural areas, the Oberschulen
were often converted to Grundschulen,
so that now the re-activation which we actually require is difficult because we
have high numbers of students. We want to make it attractive for young families
to come to the rural areas in which we may say to them: Here, there are also Oberschulen. Here, it continues after
the Grundschule. – This has been
forbidden to us. This has been a great failure of the CDU.
Certainly, you have said something on the student prognoses;
it is agreed that we will have in the coming years more students in Saxony. The
colleague Romy Penz will go into the area of vocational schools [Berufschulen].
Yet let us remain with the general purpose schools: Those
which place challenges before us. We then require more teachers because there
are more students. Let us look at the age profile of the teachers: In the next
ten to 15 years, 50% of the teachers are to be pensioned. We will then not only
need to hire new teachers so as to cover the needs of the new numbers of
students, but we will need to hire more teachers so as to at all be able to provide
schools in Saxony.
In the Grundschulen,
47% of the teachers are in the age range so that they are to be pensioned in
the next ten to 15 years. In the Oberschulen,
it is even 60%. This will become a gigantic problem. We now already have Oberschulen as in Cossebaude in which
for example in this school year 39% of the biology instruction has been
omitted. It can well and readily be said: The students need not give any
thought to a social sex because they do not at all know what a biological sex
is, ladies and gentlemen.
The great challenge which we have – which you have said –
is: We here need to retain the teachers. Where lie the present problems? A
large portion of the teachers who we train in Leipzig and Dresden want to remain
in Leipzig and Dresden. 70% of the teachers in Saxony state: I want to be
assigned to Leipzig or Dresden. – We need to get there. We need finally to
train in the fields, not only in drips and drabs but we need to do it big, and
we need to do it in the training. The study places in recent years were
increased from 2,400 to 2,800. Yet not only more quantity is required; since if
still 40% of the students discontinue their study, that is too many. Already in
2019, we demanded that aptitude tests be implemented for the course, as there
in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – besides, under a red government. If you introduce
this also in Saxony, then we will in fact find more teachers. Or, so as to say
it with an old slogan from Freiberg: “Class instead of mass”.
If one looks at the Oberschulen
in Saxony, we now already have 200 unfilled positions there. If one looks at the State Office for Schools and
Education, there are 450 teachers employed full-time. It should thereon be
reconsidered in the transition phase to order one or another from the School
Office out again into the country, or to simply say: Raus, out of the warm School Office, to where thou art needed; namely,
in the schools so as to compensate for the omitted instruction!
For us, an additional matter is important: To strengthen the
authority of the teachers. We increasingly have more helicopter parents or
complainant parents who, when a teacher acts effectively, immediately call the
School Office and say: That is unjustified, what is done with the student.
Of the 31,000 teachers in Saxony, 40% are employed
part-time. Stand up more strongly for your teachers and end the inclusion
without conditions. That certainly in the Oberschulen
is a gigantic problem as to why teachers do not go there. In the special needs
schools [Förderschulen], we now
already have 220 unfilled, full-time positions. Yet we have at the same time ordered
100 teachers to other schools, to Grundschulen,
Oberschulen and Gymnasium. Back that up a bit; then we would thereby manage to
strengthen the special needs schools.
A last point into which I want to go in the first round is
the introduction of a country teacher quota, analogous to the country doctor
quota, so that we make study places available for the teachers, especially in
the area of special pedagogy for the special needs schools. Teachers will there
be needed in Saxony. We ourselves will therefore submit a motion of our own for
a country teacher quota.
Of how we in the future manage to obtain young people again
in the rural areas so that there the loss of student numbers does not occur, I
may speak to you in the third round.
Many thanks.
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