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Phil01

(189 posts)
Thu Jul 27, 2023, 01:49 PM Jul 2023

Teachers who made desperate plea for end to far-right behaviour at German school leave town

Teachers who made desperate plea for end to far-right behaviour at German school leave town
https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/25/teachers-who-made-desperate-plea-for-end-to-far-right-behaviour-at-german-school-leave-tow

The two teachers say students greeted each other with Nazi salutes, threatened to beat up immigrant classmates and were homophobic and sexist.

Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities of students at their high school. They counselled bullies who threatened to beat up immigrant classmates. They gave more lessons about their country's Nazi past. They invited in a Black rapper to talk about mutual respect.

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“Far-right extremist statements, actions, slogans, homophobia and sexism were and are the order of the day at this school,” Nickel, 34, who worked at Mina Witkojc for four years, said in a joint interview with Teske, 31, who taught there for three years.

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Teachers who made desperate plea for end to far-right behaviour at German school leave town (Original Post) Phil01 Jul 2023 OP
Sounds familiar. Teachers have been running away from FL so much so, that they are short by SWBTATTReg Jul 2023 #1
but, but .. wait! stopdiggin Jul 2023 #2

SWBTATTReg

(24,140 posts)
1. Sounds familiar. Teachers have been running away from FL so much so, that they are short by
Thu Jul 27, 2023, 01:56 PM
Jul 2023

quite a bit in their hiring quotas. Other locations too, suffering from this apparent disconnect when hyper politics interferes seriously w/ the real world and real people.

stopdiggin

(12,852 posts)
2. but, but .. wait!
Thu Jul 27, 2023, 02:04 PM
Jul 2023

aren't we assured that Germany's 'much stricter free speech laws' - are working quite well for them?

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