After the announced departure of two teachers from a school in Burg, Brandenburg, part of the teaching staff wants to continue to campaign against right-wing extremism and for democratic values. In the future, one will speak as a group with one voice and no longer appear individually, said teacher Jette Schega of the German Press Agency. A corresponding letter to the school authority, which would soon be sent out by the group, should make that clear.
Schega described the departure of her colleagues Laura Nickel and Max Teske as a “shameful reaction” that the school authority, school management, but also the teaching staff would now have to face. In April, Nickel and Teske made daily right-wing extremist incidents at their school public in a fire letter. After that, they were increasingly exposed to right-wing hostilities. State security is investigating. The college in Burg is now deeply divided. The two teachers announced that they wanted to change schools.
“Your departure is a reaction to inaction, powerlessness and hostility,” said Schega. Brandenburg’s Minister of Education Steffen Freiberg (SPD) took note of the teachers’ requests for transfer, but did not want to comment on the “individual cases”.
Schega criticized that after the right-wing extremist incidents became known, more practical support and results from the school management and school authorities were needed. The Burger teacher also misses a closer look at the parents of the students. So-called parent representatives had written an anonymous letter about two weeks ago demanding the dismissal of the two teachers, Nickel and Teske.
