German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/78,
pp. 9339-9340.
Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Right
honorable Frau Minister.
We today discuss the National Education Report put forward
by the authors’ group in May 2022. It is therefore no longer quite dewy fresh,
yet that actually is not so bad, ladies and gentlemen; since what we read in
this National Education Report, we all actually knew quite well before. And,
yes, it is not the only report we have in the area of education. It would be
well to be named: Today, the School Barometer is to appear. We have the IQB Education
Trend, we have the PISA Countries Comparison, etc. etc. Only, ladies and
gentlemen, it needs be said: …the sow, alas, becomes no fatter, and we for long
already, Frau Minister, have no knowledge deficit but, dear colleagues, we have
a management deficit.
In that regard, I want to mention a couple of points to you.
Not far from here, in Pankow, recently schoolchildren with their parents demonstrated for
the renovation of their school. What then is that about? I thought that was
only in a third-world country, yet it occurs in the middle of Germany. The
renovation backlog for school buildings is figured at some 40 billion euros.
One billion – we have just now heard – shall now be grandiosely made ready. Yet
recently there was 100 billion for weapons. That is a disproportion, ladies and
gentlemen.
In addition, we have a massive deficit in personnel. And
here it is lamented that 40,000 teachers are lacking. That has not only to do
with the Corona preventive measures, but also with the massive influx from the
Ukraine. 200,000 students plus x more: The colleagues in the schools cannot
simply teach these with the left hand. Here, something must urgently happen,
ladies and gentlemen.
I cannot omit mentioning the following case which goes back
just a few weeks. In Ibrenbüren, Nordrein-Westfalen, a 17 year-old young man
stabbed his teacher. The silence in this case is deafening, ladies and
gentlemen. I unfortunately need also say to you: That is not a single instance.
As we know, violence against teachers in the schools massively increases. A
third of principals in a survey have reported that they know of violence by
students against teachers – it is besides frequently female teachers. In
Nordrein-Westfalen, where this young man, by chance with a migration
background, stabbed his teacher, it is even almost half of all schools. Also
here must something urgently happen, ladies and gentlemen.
What you do, in this and in other cases, can actually only
be named continual assistance [unterlassene
Hilfeleistung]. In that regard, there are opportunities to improve the
situation in the schools.
Let us come to speak of what in fact happens in education in
the schools. We know in which States it is working. Those are by happenstance
the States in the south of our country. Bavaria and Saxony are dong quite well.
In all comparisons, Bavaria and Saxony are at the fore. Yet now for once it
needs be recognized: What makes Bavaria and Saxony different? There is there a
differentiated school system. There, the Hauptschulen
have not been thrown into the waste basket
Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Nay!
and outside just the shield is unscrewed in the belief that
thereby everything will be better.
Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Exactly!
It is differentiated. There is a Grundschul recommendation and there is at least a minimal standard
of authority and discipline. That is, I think, also a key for learning success.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, respect for the teacher belongs
to that,
Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Right!
exactly of course as respect for the student belongs to
that. Yet of these things, apparently in your view out-dated, you want nothing
more to know.
Beyond that, we need to return to education and knowledge
instead of gender and inclusion at any price. In concluding – and this well
accords with the debate: We also need to provide our immigration policy with
education criteria.
Vice-president Yvonne Magwas: Please come to a conclusion.
A further immigration from uneducated classes can our
education system no longer bear [Eine
weitere Zuwanderung aus bildungsfernen Schichten kann unser Bildungssystem
nicht mehr vertragen]. And thereby is no one served.
Many thanks for your attention.
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