In a guest article, Heinz-Peter Meidinger warns of serious problems with students who come from extended criminal Arab families. He advocates preventive work.
The President of the German Teachers’ Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, is concerned that conflicts between different clans will also be carried out in classrooms.
In a guest article published in “Bild”, the retired high school director writes: “Especially in Berlin, but also in other major German cities with a high proportion of Arab-Turkish immigrants: schools and classes in which children from these families, including for crime well-known clans make up a high percentage.”
The problem with this is that the children of clan members have their own understanding of the law and values: “(…) it is difficult to convince the children of the non-violent solution to conflicts when they use different, violent solution strategies in their daily lives experience the environment.”
He has received feedback from teachers that it is not easy to convince clan children that education is a great opportunity: “(…) and that the effort at school is worthwhile when the older brother without a school certificate has a Rolex on his wrist running around and the father, although officially unemployed, drives around in a big SUV.”
This different conception of values would contribute to the fact that parallel societies could already develop in schools. Chief teacher Meidinger therefore appeals: “We must not stand idly by and watch this development!”
How the 67-year-old would like to tackle the alleged problem? “More prevention work in schools would be very important. Also with more Arabic-speaking social workers, but there are still major deficits,” writes Meidinger in his “Bild” guest contribution.
