The head teacher at a Berlin school has written a desperate letter to state authorities asking for help.
Teachers were no longer able to cope with the students’ aggression and disrespect, it had become almost impossible to hold orderly lessons, and students were ignoring or even attacking teachers and fighting among themselves.
One teacher complained to the Tagesspiegel newspaper that ethnic Arab pupils were in the majority and were bullying ethnic Turks, Germans and other nationalities. A student who was interviewed warned that pupils were coming to school armed:
Things have been getting worse and worse because people seem to be crazy here. They are bringing knives and weapons to school.
Nor is the problem confined to one school. On March 21st, an Arab student used a mobile phone to call in a gang of up to 15 Arab men to take vengeance on a black student in the Charlottenburg Pommern School. A quick thinking teacher ushered the boy into a nearby room, so the gang picked out another black student and beat him up.
Another recent case involved a female teacher at the Wedding Theodor Plievier School, who was shot at while at a telephone booth near the school. Teachers at this school have also written a letter in which they say that half of the students can’t be educated, and that a majority have no feeling for general standards, values and boundaries.
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From the BBC News report: The education minister for Berlin, Klaus Boeger, said the school would soon be given two social workers and two psychologists to help pupils.
Social workers and psychologists when passports and one-way flight tickets are what’s needed.