Germany is sliding into a catastrophe in the field of school education, writes Bild. Hundreds of thousands of lessons are cancelled all over the country, and children are left without half-yearly and sometimes even final grades in various subjects. All this is due to the fact that Germany is short of thousands of teachers, while the number of students is growing.
The country of poets and thinkers is slipping into an educational catastrophe, says Bild. Every year hundreds of thousands of lessons are cancelled in Germany. Despite this, only two federal states check whether pupils receive grades on their report cards at all. And not without reason, as the shocking example of Thuringia shows.
The cancellation of lessons in the first half of the year was so serious that in 51,232 cases pupils did not receive a grade on their report cards. 270 children even went home without a grade in their native German language. For 70 pupils it was not possible to get a grade in maths. In music alone, more than 10,000 pupils did not receive a final grade. Missing grades in drawing, ethics, geography, geography, chemistry, physics, foreign languages, history and physical education are also measured in thousands. The number of missing grades in the report card has increased by 20% as compared to the previous year.
Overall, every third comprehensive school reported gaps in report cards. Purely mathematically, one in five of the 257,000 pupils in Thuringia was affected. The reason for this is that Thuringia is short of 2,000 teachers because often more teachers retire than are recruited while the number of pupils grows.
In Saxony-Anhalt, which is short of 1,500 teachers, 27,245 pupils did not receive a grade in at least one subject in the half-year reports for 2022/23. Despite this, schools here have not yet had to report missing marks on the report card. All other federal states are evasive or say that there is no research or indication that half-year grades are missing on a large scale.
Absenteeism and teacher shortages across Germany suggest there are more gaps in school reports than the federal states admit: according to the teachers’ union, Lower Saxony alone is short of 8,000 teachers, while the North Rhine-Westphalia ministry says there are 7,100 vacant teaching positions.
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