Suddenly there was silence in the parliamentary education Committee. It was the Moment when the headmistress of the house otter elementary school, Daniela, Walter, said: “The student was not a bullying victim.” And as you described how negative the reporting on the alleged bullying-suicide had an impact on the teachers and students of your school.
a Few days after the death of the girl’s head of the school, Walter had still not confirmed that there had been for the child is a bullying Problem at the school. At a mourning rally in front of the school at the beginning of February, you spoke of massive conflicts with other girls. These had been taken out of the class. The incident back to the sun, however, already for about a year. The contradiction between the two statements could on Thursday not explain. Also a father of school on Thursday brought to the daily mirror, his assertion that the student had been in front shortly before her death, massively bullied.
Thursday, it was. the girl buried
Daniela Walter was out of your Reinickendorf primary cover came to the house of representatives, because there was a of the CDU and the FDP initiated consultation on the subject of “bullying” On the occasion of the death of the house otter school. “Today, the funeral was,” said Walter, before you described that it makes you “incredibly angry at what is said about the school”. While there are cases of Bullying, but not more than at other schools “to 1. February, I didn’t know that my school is a bullying school,“ she added.
In addition, the parents of the girl whose younger sister visited the house otter school still standing, “on a daily basis in contact with us”. The actual motives for the suicide, the parents would have said to her “nothing”. As reported, the house otter school of the school inspection documented serious bullying Problem, before the current headteacher took up the Post 2017/18.
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don’t order more Even if Walter’s designs, the actual reason for the hearing in the education Committee. Everyone agreed: Regardless of the specific case, the topic is important and urgent. Five experts had brought with them their Expertise. In the interest of Anti-bullying – expert Herbert Scheithauer particularly aroused. The FU-Professor advises house otter-school in your current Situation and should help to smooth out the weeks, especially as the situation there still has not calmed down. Some parents were also came up for hearing, to know what advice the experts give.
A Commission to said the bullying statistics discuss
On the question of what could help schools, Scheithauer, that “short-term measures do nothing”. You need time and had to carefully analyse what the end of a “handful of action” for the school and to the specific case. Since bullying is a “group process,” was it hard to get a handle on it. Scheithauer reported that the theme of the game also in the teacher training role. The corresponding seminars were booked out for the “complete”.
country students, spokeswoman Eileen Hager warned, “that has changed the atmosphere at the schools – into the Negative”. The threshold for harassment had declined, and the victim didn’t know often where to. Therefore, the country student Committee call for mandatory Anti-bullying projects. As reported, has started in the body of a Crowdfunding initiative, to be able to make good approaches to promote.
A further question which surfaced was: what is the violence – and bullying-statistics. As reported, it is not published, because the administration of education is engaged since 2016 in order to evaluate the current Form of the survey. Education Senator Sandra Scheeres (SPD) announced to the Committee that a Commission will deal with the evaluation results. The Commission should include, among others, representatives of the police and the land Commission against violence. In relation to the increasing bullying problem, the Senator had announced in the daily mirror that she wanted for the first time, create the post of anti-bullying officer.
Hamburg recorded slight violence
At the edge of the Committee, it was from Scheeres’ environment, that Berlin will be based, under certain circumstances, to Hamburg: The local education authority takes over the data of the police, the reporting process is robust. The experience has shown that head teachers constructed very different standards for their violence messages. Since 2016, the only police approved and confirmed the offences included in the statistics on student violence. Slight acts of violence are not recorded in Hamburg, Germany. Berlin takes over the Hamburg rules, is becoming more common.
Scheithauer confirmed that the information provided by the schools were fully loaded. You need “dark-field surveys, in order to get reliable data.”
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