When someone passed his second exam for the “state grammar school service” around the year 2000, a certainly sublime moment, he then received downright lovely mail afterwards. First sentence: “The Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture intends to use you as a teacher.”
Now people always thought that cucumber slicers, Eternit plates and toilet paper were “used”, but of course one could be wrong. And possibly the rest of this letter was interspersed with a tone that one would expect somewhere between a North Korean parade ground and a Belarusian penitentiary, just for the sensitive little ones: “Please let us know immediately at the latest, however, within three days (bold in the cover letter) – period begins with the date of the postmark – whether you agree to their use.”
The person who was written to, just for the sake of classification, had not stolen from his grandmother, but only dared to sit an excellent exam in a number of humanities subjects. But maybe that’s the hidden meaning of such stupid barracks German: “Young boy, if you think that the friendly laissez-faire from the university will continue here – then you’d better give up.”
Can you do that, logically. But then it shouldn’t be surprising if some people don’t feel any increased desire for such forms of politeness, keyword acute shortage of teachers. In any case, fellow students report that the tone and this very special kind of ministerial appreciation have remained pretty much the same. The current generation of students, however, laughs a bit in the face of this: Look for other command & obedience idiots.
Incidentally, anyone who had already decided at that time, after the first state examination, to resist the charms of the Bavarian ministerial bureaucracy – as far as one can remember – hardly ever heard from the ministry again. In the sense, for example, that you could reconsider your career as a teacher.
Well, wouldn’t have made sense either. Only: The state government cannot know that. But they should be aware that they have previously spent vast sums of money on the – first-class – training of potential civil servants. But then let them go without batting an eyelash. How – are there too few teachers in Bavaria? There look.