“System is out of date” – Expert: This needs to change at school

Andreas Salcher is considered one of the foremost educational experts. He’s worried about the system. “Please don’t go back to normal. An earthquake, and that was and is the pandemic, offers the opportunity to rebuild, to make it better and more modern.”

How, Salcher has a few suggestions:

• Student Day: Students should also provide feedback to teachers. Let’s give the students a voice.

• Appreciation in times of bullying: What ideas can we use to strengthen respectful interactions with each other? What would students do if they were once teachers?

• Topic: Pupils and teachers agree on binding rules for the size and examination modalities. Unfortunately, we afford an overpriced and completely outdated school system that rarely recognizes and encourages talent. Moreover: no more rummaging through outdated curricula.

• Social media: The constant warnings about the dangers are disproportionate to the actual biggest threat to young people’s lives: obesity coupled with a lack of exercise.

• Money: The government’s package of measures of 28 billion contains few future investments.

• Champions League: We have had six ministers of education in the last ten years. You cannot work continuously like this. Jurgen Klopp has been Liverpool manager for seven years. Champions League countries educate their primary school teachers academically, have smaller groups to care for in terms of small children. In Canada, kindergarten teachers earn the same as senior teachers. These large differences are also reflected in differences in student performance. To stick with football: it’s like Rapid Vienna against Real Madrid.