Education City Councilor Christoph Return (Neos) summarizes his work from the last five years in the Vienna Education System of Krone.tv and meets a question: “Addiction to mobile phone and social media is increasing enormously, the mobile phone is a attention killer. I therefore call for a ban on mobile phones at the primary schools of Vienna.
In the background discussion after the interview, the city council talks about so-called ‘Mandy-Safes’, in which students have to post their mobile phones during school visits in the future. When leaving the school building, the mobile phones could then be remedied from this safe. If the ban on mobile phones at primary schools proves itself, it would be conceivable to expand it to other school types. For example to the Viennese high schools. There would be a number of reasons for this. For example, that the mobile phone would increasingly deduct the students’ attention from the class.
Influence of religion
However, other influencing factors would also have a strong impact on teaching. Return: “Society has changed enormously in recent years. For example, there is an increasing influence of different religions on our school system. And in general this was of course five years for the education system. First the pandemic, where we also have a reduced knowledge of German in the area of kindergarten. When the Ukraine war, which means that a total of 6,000 extra children came to the Viennese school system. These are developments that worry me. Parents cannot talk to female teachers. “
From the position of the city council, there would also be far too few legal possibilities to defend themselves against current developments. Return: “We need high administrative fines.”
More support staff
The fact that there was a shortage of teachers in Vienna has been paid in recent years with increased measures. Retourn: “We are making the profession of education increasingly attractive. Countless measures. For example, the educational staff gets a public ticket from the Viennese lines. And there are now many more support staff for teachers in Vienna than in the past.
The Educational City Council says that in the past there were even letters from the Ministry of Education not to become a teacher because there were too many employees. Retour: “That was from Minister Gehrer in De Tijd.” And now you would have too few teachers. Return, summarizing: “In the field of education (The Ministry of Education is intended, note) Has far too little gone in recent decades.
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