It's a hard, and potentially inflammatory, conversation, about parents who likely shouldn't have been parents, and how Germany is going to handle migrant parents interested at parenting at level needed for their children to succeed.
> Ackermann said she wants to hold parents accountable as well. She decried what she said was the fact that a rising number of parents spend more time with their mobile phones than with their children.
> Tichys Einblick magazine reported today that columnist and former middle school teacher Josef Kraus wrote in response to the GEW letter: “There are parents who do not want to raise their children out of convenience or due to difficult circumstances.
> “They entrust the upbringing of their children to day care centres and schools. Or they simply do not care,” he wrote.
> “This is especially true for many parents with a migrant background who do not consider it important for their children to acquire a solid command of the German language.”
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 14.0 ms ] thread> Ackermann said she wants to hold parents accountable as well. She decried what she said was the fact that a rising number of parents spend more time with their mobile phones than with their children.
> Tichys Einblick magazine reported today that columnist and former middle school teacher Josef Kraus wrote in response to the GEW letter: “There are parents who do not want to raise their children out of convenience or due to difficult circumstances.
> “They entrust the upbringing of their children to day care centres and schools. Or they simply do not care,” he wrote.
> “This is especially true for many parents with a migrant background who do not consider it important for their children to acquire a solid command of the German language.”