Brandenburg
Teacher is said to have beaten students – racist motive?
A teacher is said to have beaten students with a migrant background at a school in Cottbus last fall. photo
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A teacher is said to have beaten students with a migrant background at a school in Cottbus last fall. The police are also checking for a racist background.
There is one at a school in Cottbus Teachers became violent against students with a migrant background. As the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) reported, one of the boys was injured so badly that he had to be treated as an inpatient in a clinic. The Brandenburg Ministry of Education confirmed the incident.
According to police, the parents filed a report after the incidents in September 2023. A spokeswoman said they were investigating. A racist motive is also being examined. According to the Victim Perspective Association, both boys were twelve years old at the time.
Punch in the neck
According to the RBB report, a student was hit in the neck by the teacher. The student suffered, among other things, a whiplash injury to the cervical spine and had to be taken to the hospital. The teacher is said to have kicked a second student in the back when he contradicted a derogatory statement the teacher made about his country of origin.
When asked on Wednesday, the Ministry of Education said it was very sorry that the case described had occurred. “All the bodies involved took the processing very seriously – including the involvement of those with legal custody.” The school management informed the Cottbus school authority about the situation on the day of the incident. There was also a conversation with the teacher. According to the education authority’s knowledge, there is no longer any school contact between the affected children and the teacher and there will be no contact, said the ministry. Details were not given with reference to data protection.
The school has not yet apologized
Since the attacks became known, Joschka Fröschner from the Cottbus team of the Victim Perspective Association has been looking after both families who had a history of escape, as he reported. It was important for those affected to make the violence against their children public, he told the German Press Agency. Both were twelve years old at the time of the incidents. According to him, the school has so far refused to speak about the incident. The children continued to go to this school. “It’s completely incomprehensible to me that there hasn’t been an apology from the school or the school authority to the families, I don’t understand that at all.”