Dilapidated buildings, frustrated students and teachers witnessing a rise in attacks: The German education system is seen to be struggling.
Germany’s schools have had a lot of bad news in recent months. In December the PISA study showed German pupils falling behind in mathematics and reading. Last month’s 2024 Youth Study showed a digitalization deficit in schools, with students saying they don’t feel prepared to find a job and manage the challenges of real life. Then a survey conducted in April known as the Schulbarometer (school barometer) had one in two teachers reporting that they had witnessed psychological or physical violence from pupils.
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The Berlin education minister recently had to send a letter to 800 schools to warn them that a false report was going viral on Tiktok, urging participation in a “National Rape Day.”
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Last month’s 2024 Youth Study showed a digitalization deficit in schools, with students saying they don’t feel prepared to find a job and manage the challenges of real life.
The Berlin education minister recently had to send a letter to 800 schools to warn them that a false report was going viral on Tiktok, urging participation in a “National Rape Day.”
He says the situation has changed dramatically over the past few years and blames smartphones and social media use for the increase in stress, exhaustion, self-doubt and listlessness that has been observed.
The months-long closure of schools is sometimes considered the biggest mistake made during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic: German pupils had to stay at home for more than 180 days, far longer than in many European countries.
Smaller classes, more teachers, a good support system with social workers and psychologists — that’s what Müller proposes in order to get Germany’s schools back on track.
The head of a grammar school in Bavaria told DW that he advocates a zero-tolerance policy: “At a certain point we enter the realm of criminal law,” he said.
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So the latest tiktok challenge is ‘rape day’? Humans really have no upper bound on evil.
Believe it or not, just because there is a fake ‘national rape day’ thing on TikTok, it doesn’t mean that teenagers will go around raping each other on that day.
There’s also a greater than zero chance that some will.
How much greater? Let’s see the numbers.
Sounds like a single person posting something stupid and newspapers posting it as if all of TikTok is on board. Because newspapers know Boomers are too stupid fact check anything because they lack media literacy.
You calling me a boomer? I kid… but a google search tells me you may be right.
To be fair I usually fall for the trick too unless I’m invested in a subject. In this case I’m more aware of the media smear campaign against TikTok which is why I start doubting any crazy negative news against TikTok if sources aren’t linked in the article.
