Schools in trouble

The symptoms of our education system

The well-known entrepreneur and political blogger Gerald Markel, father of six and grandfather of two, interviews a primary school teacher from Upper Austria. Her name is not given, because teachers would have to have every conversation with outsiders approved by the education directorate!

Although this teacher works at a relatively privileged school in the countryside, she too feels the shortcomings from which our entire education system suffers:

• Inclusion without adequate staffing
• Cuts in support lessons and support funding
• Staff shortages, which will soon worsen dramatically as the baby boomers retire
• Far too few PE lessons
• More and more children with motor, psychological and intellectual deficits

An exciting conversation that offers revealing insights into the working life of a committed teacher.

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The 2nd edition of our book meets a completely changed readership.

In 2017, the idea that learning outside school was possible at all was considered the eccentric notion of a few outsiders. Since then, all parents, whether they wanted to or not, have had to deal with forms of learning outside school.

The number of children withdrawn from school has exploded since then, and alternative learning projects are springing up like mushrooms.

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