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Desperate parents in Leisnig: teacher withdrawn before summer holidays!
A shortage of teachers in Central Saxony is causing chaos: Leisnig elementary school loses a class teacher shortly before the summer holidays. Parents protest.
Desperate parents in Leisnig: teacher withdrawn before summer holidays!
These days, just before the summer holidays, things are usually anything but relaxed in schools. Things are particularly high at the primary school in Leisnig. The Ministry of Culture has decided on measures to combat the cancellation of classes, which are now causing great uncertainty. A young teacher who has been teaching the class for three years is to be seconded to a high school. The parents only found out about this decision on Wednesday, which only increased their desperation.
A mother expressed her incomprehension that a proven teacher was being withdrawn from a functioning school. There is a feeling that the secondment of teachers puts the students here at a disadvantage. In the Chemnitz school district, the cancellation of classes at high schools is particularly high, so the pressure on the existing teachers only increases. In this context, GEW spokeswoman Claudia Maaß spoke of “bazaar-like conditions” at the regional conferences of the State Office for Schools and Education (Lasub). The country expects this to provide planning security for the new school year, but this hope is not shared by parents without reservations.
The cancellation of lessons – a big problem
However, the delegation affects not only the class teacher, but also several other teachers at the Leisniger school. Almost a third of the teaching positions in the North Rhine-Westphalia school system are vacant, as WDR reports. According to the Ministry of Education, 8,000 positions are unfilled; For the first time, a comprehensive recording of lesson cancellations was carried out here for the 2023/2024 school year. Many schools are faced with the challenge that the reasons for timetables and lesson cancellations vary greatly.
But what about 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 only make up 21.1 percent of the total. Every second school lacks teachers at the beginning of the school year, so the education council is now planning to address the teacher shortage by reforming teacher training and temporarily reducing the timetable. It probably won't be easy to find sustainable solutions - Minister Dorothee Feller is optimistic, but at the same time points out that the road is still long.
The parents in Leisnig have already decided to write a joint email to Lasub to express their concerns. They demand that the teacher shortage should not be carried out on the backs of their children. Saxon reports about it while WDR the numbers further substantiate and the German school portal examined the situation nationwide. The shortage of teachers remains an issue that concerns us all and urgently awaits solutions.