Six schools are currently supervised by the crisis intervention team in Carinthia after the terrible murder attack in Villach. The “Kroon” was on site and spoke with Carinthia’s education director Isabella Penz.
On Monday morning and a cold wind blows in Klagenfurt and bewilderment envelops the shock cultivated school. Cars from the crisis intervention park in front. The entire school building is closed; All doors closed. Occasionally students go into the building with a headhead. A kind of shock is rigid in the air.
Six schools in Klagenfurt, Villach and Feldkirchen are currently provided by specialists. A school in Klagenfurt is mainly affected – there are even two victims to complain about. On the one hand, the 14-year-old young man, who was killed in the murder attack, as well as a seriously injured person who enters the parallel class of the deceased.
Psychological support for the students
“It’s a stressful situation,” education director Isabella Penz is stunned. “A grandmother has just called me, there are countless e-mails this murder is activated in this way. On the one hand, the specially trained crisis intervention team of the Red Cross and the school psychology on site. A trained psychotherapist is also present at the ‘Secondary School’. It is important that the children, young people and educators are accompanied and supported. That they are understood and calmed down.
It is important to offer young people the opportunity to discuss this incredible situation – to meet them with understanding and to take the young people seriously. “It is also necessary to lead a conversation to the – escalation – there is a lot of anger, sadness, helplessness and lack of disorientation in schools,” emphasizes Penz, who wants to set offers in fact and calm, so that the ability of the School to be able to act has been restored.
“It is important for parents to recognize alarm signals – usually in all crises.” And that is the case in Carinthia. A crisis that goes much further than the national borders. The dismay is great, especially in schools where young people actually have to exchange ideas about other problems. All the first exciting experiences that grow up bring it with it: the first love, the first “spot”, the first party evening …
The 14-year-old can no longer experience this. He can no longer go to school. He will not be part of the Matura Ball. His friends are now at school without him where the space stays empty – cold. As well as outside where the wind blows. An icy wind that accompanies this first day of school with sorrow, anger and helplessness.
Source: Krone
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