An alliance of parents, social workers, trade unionists and students reaches from daycare to university, which made a vehement appeal to the future Berlin coalition on Tuesday. In view of the “fundamental crisis” in which education is stuck, the alliance formulated ten demands.
It will be one of the great challenges of the future Senate to find adequate answers to this crisis. Since the final phase of the coalition negotiations will primarily be about money, the alliance wanted to give the education politicians from the CDU and SPD arguments to protect the Berlin daycare centers, schools and teacher training in the universities from underfunding. Education is still not the priority she needs.
The ten demands range from a “dialogue at eye level” to inclusion and anti-discrimination to the expansion of infrastructure, digitization, renovation and new construction in all areas of education. Other points include: More staff in the day-care centers and in all-day activities, strengthening social work, more multi-professional teams to make work in schools easier, and expanding the number of teacher training places with the aim that 3,000 teacher training graduates complete their studies every year. as demanded by Philipp Dehne from “School must be different”.
It’s not about individual problems or omissions, it’s about a crisis of the whole system.
Martina Regulin, GEW President
The concern that in the end it could fail again because of the money is no coincidence. State parent spokesman Norman Heise recalled that there were certain financial politicians who still maintained that the schools had no money problems. He also asked how it is that Berlin supposedly has the best pro-student funding in Germany and yet it is missing everywhere. His guess: the free after-school care centers and offers such as free school meals play a role in this. The catch: These offers are expensive, they are sometimes welcomed by the state parents’ committee, but they do not contribute to a significant improvement in the situation at schools.
The situation is similar with the daycare centers: the fact that the parents were waived the fees did not benefit the quality of the daycare centers around a third of the staff that the Bertelsmann Foundation considers necessary to look after the youngest is missing.
“It’s not about individual problems or omissions, it’s about a crisis of the whole system,” said Martina Regulin, Chairwoman of the Education and Science Union, outlining the alliance’s mainstay. (all)
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