Judgments next year – “Black Pedagogy”: Torture in the nursery?

Two Carinthian early childhood teachers face judge Sabine Götz for torturing their protégés. The former head and her deputy of an institution near Klagenfurt are said to have forced one to three-year-olds to eat, pulled their hair or failed to put them on the potty on time, among other things. There would also have been humiliation: “You’re disgusting,” was said when a girl wet herself.

Educators deny everything
“It’s all not true,” the teachers assure. And people laugh when she talks about ‘her’ children: ‘There are no problematic children, only challenges!’ These would have included, for example, the fact that some dwarves had never eaten vegetables. “I already said: let’s try and not spit it all out! I also believe that children should learn to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ – and to greet them. But such values ​​are apparently no longer current.”

Witnesses report that they never saw any abuse – but that it was strict within the Secret Santa group: “One girl choked, vomited soup and was given a new plate,” sobs a colleague. Dealing with such children affects her enormously, she explains her tearful outburst.

Don’t judge until next year
It is also emotional outside the auditorium, where parents exchange ideas: “It has taken so long; “What bad women,” a man complains, while a mother wanted to “see” if it was “her” kindergarten. ‘Fortunately not.’ Another thinks the accusations are not ‘black pedagogy: they certainly meant well.’ The sentences will not be handed down until 2025.