Desperate parents in Leisnig: Teacher withdrawn before summer vacation!

Desperate parents in Leisnig: Teacher withdrawn before summer vacation!

These days, shortly before the summer vacation, it is usually anything but relaxed at schools. The waves are particularly high at the elementary school in Leisnig. The Ministry of Culture has decided against the loss of teaching, which now ensure great uncertainty. For example, a young teacher who has been teaching the class for three years should be seconded to a high school. The parents only learned about this decision on Wednesday, which only reinforced despair.

A mother expressed her lack of understanding that a proven teacher is deducted from a functioning school. There is the feeling that the delegation of the teachers disadvantages the students here on site. In the Chemnitz school district, the lesson loss at high schools is particularly high, so that the pressure on the existing teachers only increases. In this context, GEW spokeswoman Claudia Maaß spoke of “basar-like conditions” at the regional conferences of the State Office for School and Education (Lasub). The country expects planning security for the new school year, but this hope is not shared by the parents without hesitation.

The loss of lessons - a big problem

However, the delegation not only affects the class teacher, but also several other teachers at the Leisniger school. Almost a third of the teaching positions in the North Rhine-Westphalian school system is vacant, as WDR reports. According to the Ministry of Education, 8,000 jobs are vacant; For the first time, a nationwide recording of the lessons was carried out here for the school year 2023/2024. Many schools face the challenge that the reasons for timetables and the loss of teaching vary greatly.

But how is the number of teachers nationwide? An analysis shows worrying figures: Around 42.3 percent of teachers now work part -time, many teachers are over 50 years old and those under 35 are only 21.1 percent of the total number. At the beginning of the school year, teachers are missing, so that the educational council is now planning to start the shortage of teachers through a reform of teacher training and temporary cuts in the hourly table. It will probably not be easy to find sustainable solutions - the Minister Dorothee Feller is optimistic, but at the same time points out that the path is still long.

The parents in Leisnig have already decided to write a joint email to the Lasub in order to express their concerns. They demand that the lack of teachers should not be held on their children's back. Sächsische reports about it, while wdr further underpinned and The German school portal highlights the situation nationwide. The lack of teachers remains a topic that concerns all of us and urgently waiting for solutions.