Almost a hundred associations from the education sector have launched an appeal for an educational turnaround. "Our society is currently experiencing one of the most serious educational crises since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany," says the letter.
An enormous shortage of teachers and educators meets an "outdated, underfunded and segregated education system" that is socially unjust. Necessary tasks such as digitization and inclusion have been "overslept for far too long", the signatories say. The letter was initiated by the Berlin initiative "School must be different"