It's a hard, and potentially inflammatory, conversation, about parents who likely shouldn't have been parents, and how Germany is going to handle migrant parents interested at parenting at level needed for their children to succeed.
> Ackermann said she wants to hold parents accountable as well. She decried what she said was the fact that a rising number of parents spend more time with their mobile phones than with their children.
> Tichys Einblick magazine reported today that columnist and former middle school teacher Josef Kraus wrote in response to the GEW letter: “There are parents who do not want to raise their children out of convenience or due to difficult circumstances.
> “They entrust the upbringing of their children to day care centres and schools. Or they simply do not care,” he wrote.
> “This is especially true for many parents with a migrant background who do not consider it important for their children to acquire a solid command of the German language.”
It's not just about parents, it's about our (western) society as a whole. While Germany has a bigger problems because of massive immigration, all this sound familiar for all teachers from Eastern-Europe to the US. We stopped treating people as being accountable for their own actions. This is true for parents, children etc. It's OK to have every possible excuse – "I'm immigrant, single mother, immature, don't have an education etc" not to take any responsibility and people take advantage of it. This is the idea that you just have to treat people well and it fixes all sorts issues in society failing.
toomuchtodo|2 months ago
> Ackermann said she wants to hold parents accountable as well. She decried what she said was the fact that a rising number of parents spend more time with their mobile phones than with their children.
> Tichys Einblick magazine reported today that columnist and former middle school teacher Josef Kraus wrote in response to the GEW letter: “There are parents who do not want to raise their children out of convenience or due to difficult circumstances.
> “They entrust the upbringing of their children to day care centres and schools. Or they simply do not care,” he wrote.
> “This is especially true for many parents with a migrant background who do not consider it important for their children to acquire a solid command of the German language.”
obscurette|2 months ago