For weeks, the students demonstrate on Fridays for more climate protection – and to go in this time not in the classroom. A model of the “Fridays for Future”movement, the 16-year-old Swede, Greta Thunberg. The largest student strike in Berlin on 25. January, several thousand young people on the street, last Friday, there were, according to organizer Luisa Neubauer approximately 1000 students. The Whole thing is not a one-time thing, and so the question of how the schools deal with it, if students miss more or less regular lessons. Because, after all, education is compulsory.
will, in Principle, brought the students much kindness. Education Senator Sandra Scheeres (SPD) regard with much sympathy the concerns of the students, said a spokeswoman for the administration of education. Compulsory education was a matter of course. But schools could integrate through project days or hours of the “Fridays for Future”.
“There is a wide range of how schools respond,” says activist Luisa Neubauer. You’ve heard of the schools, the students for their commitment to praise, but also by a number of, the excellent or even school references say.
The absenteeism in many schools the certificate
a number of schools values absences as unexcused Absence, which will then be recorded on the certificate. So it manages for example the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Tegel. “We have said clearly that this applies even if we have understanding for the political commitment of the student as an unexcused Absence. For all students this unentschuldigte false is entered the time then in the testimony and supporting Documents,“ says headmaster Jörg Kayser. Also schools in Potsdam you can hear the: support for the political education of the students, unexcused lessons will be entered, unless there is an apology.
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pupils of a Berlin Catholic high school have participated in strikes. You have the impression that the students, and aware of the sanctions would have taken, stated in a Letter from the school to the parents.
“these consequences are, in our view, is essential, because they protect the teaching, and a prosperous coexistence in the school”, – said in the Letter. Unexcused Absence shall will be stated on the certificate, and if Work fails, they will have to be as poor a rating. Of a rebuke to the school see, “because we have great respect for those who advocate for equitable living conditions for all people and also personally negative consequences”.
Kittler: “Civil disobedience, I can understand”
“I think it is very good, my daughter to join in,” says Sandra Lietz, man. Your 16-year-old daughter, who attended high school in Köpenick, have so far had no difficulties therefore. “I think it’s also good that it happened during school time, because otherwise it would be of interest to no one.”
The education-policy spokeswoman of the CDU, Hildegard Bentele, says she was pleased with the commitment of the students. If, however, lasting only four days of instruction would be, could this be in the interests of the students. “Wise teachers, and politicians to make the students now offers” to talk, for example, about what the coal exit means or what is for an energy transition necessary.
Regina Kittler (left party) speaks of “a Form of civil disobedience, I can understand well”. And Marianne Burkert-Eulitz (Green) says: “We support the commitment, and put us up for a massive restraint on the part of school authorities, because it is existential question of the future of our children.” Also this Friday an air strike is announced: from 12 to 14 PM in the disability Park in the middle of it.
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