Neukölln, Kreuzberg, Mitte, Spandau, Schöneberg: schools in five Berlin districts are eager for security guards.
Security is already patrolling the Abbe Gymnasium on Sonnenallee in the Neukölln district. There was a conflict between pupils ( aged 14, 15) and a teacher (61) over a Palestinian flag, in the course of which the teacher was brutally kicked.
The Berlin Senator for Education, Katharina Günther-Wünsch (40, CDU), finds the situation at schools in the capital “extremely tense”.
The politician says : “It is depressing what kind of emails we receive from school administrators and teachers. It starts with graffiti, notices and exclamations. It ends with concrete threats from pupils and parents against teachers.”
According to information from the newspaper BILD, more and more teachers are calling in sick. Two bomb threats at the Carl von Ossietzky School in the Kreuzberg district on the first day of school after the Hamas attack on Israel were demoralising. The building was evacuated.
A planned flash mob in the schoolyard of the B. Traven School (Spandau) to mark a pro-Palestine action failed due to alarmed police.
Another problem is intruders. The senator: “Time and again, people from outside the school try to gain access to the buildings – or they wait at the exit to address the students directly and hand out flyers.”
So far, it has not happened at all in the schools in the Berlin districts of Pankow, Treptow-Köpenick or Lichtenberg.
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