Posted on 04/12/2006 4:46:00 PM PDT by HEMICRASHBOX
Suddenly, teachers at Berlin's Ruetli school decided enough was enough. They would no longer tolerate being spat at, insulted and attacked by pupils, some of whom spoke hardly any German and many of whom carried knives.
Things had deteriorated to such an extent at the state school - in a district where 80 per cent of pupils are from Muslim immigrant families - that it had become virtually impossible to teach, and some staff feared for their lives. At the end of their tether, staff wrote to the authorities pleading for the school to be closed.
Led by Petre Eggebrecht, the acting head teacher, their letter said: "We are desperate. Our teaching is met with flat rejection. The mood in the classrooms is one of aggression, complete lack of respect and ignorance. Instructions are ignored. Few students bring relevant material, and many of us will only enter a lesson with a cell phone in order to call for help in an emergency."
Students carried knives, supposedly "to defend themselves", and many came from families with no breadwinner and no hope for the future.
When the letter - sent in February - was leaked to the press last month, the extent of the crisis in the country's once-prized education system finally burst into the public arena.
Remarkably, the furore has coincided with the release of the German film Brutally Tough, a fictional portrayal of the criminal youth subculture in Neukoelln, the Berlin neighbourhood where Ruetli school is situated. It tells how the son of a German prostitute is terrorised by Turkish drug dealers. In one scene, a waste bin is placed over his head and beaten with a baseball bat.
Detlev Buck, the director, said his film was meant as a wake-up call to the German authorities about the parlous state of the nation's immigrant communities.
For the staff of the school, the film has proved eerily realistic. "In many families, the pupils are the only ones who have to get up in the morning," one teacher told the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. "I feel as though we are raising criminals and terrorists here," he added. The teacher wrote anonymously after education authorities banned staff from talking publicly, ostensibly to avoid inflaming the situation.
The school's language problems were highlighted last week when a pupil, interviewed on television, was barely able to answer questions put to him. Teachers said that the few German students at the school had resorted to "pidgin German" to fit in with the majority. Last year, not a single pupil passed enough examinations to graduate into employment.
When police and teams of social workers and psychologists were dispatched to the school last week, in an attempt to answer the teachers' calls for help, television crews following them were pelted with cobblestones by "gangs of marauding, hooded pupils".
Since the teachers spoke out 10 days ago, headmasters, staff and pupils at secondary and comprehensive schools across Germany have complained of similar deficiencies in the state system, caused by decades of failed immigration policies and diminishing prospects on job market.
Christian Pfeiffer, the head of Germany's Criminological Research Institute, echoed the teachers' sentiments. "German secondary schools have degenerated into schools for losers," he said.
Stung into action, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government last week launched an action plan to try to come to grips with the problem amid warnings that the immigrant rioting witnessed in France last year was imminent in Germany unless drastic measures were taken.
Turkish leaders say the problems in areas like Neukoelln are to do with deep social problems, not simply the fault of the immigrant population. "Young Arabs who live in Germany are raised in an authoritarian manner. The problem is that the school authorities are weak," Nazar Mazood, the head of an Arabic culture institute in Neukoelln said.
Most of Germany's 3.3 million Muslim immigrant population are of Turkish or Lebanese descent. Critics note that for decades the Turks - by far the country's largest immigrant group - were officially regarded as "guest workers" who were in the country on only a temporary basis.
100 Mexicans are 1/2 a company. 1 Muslim on the other hand is a pinata.
And the Latin American Left has been making commom cause with Islamic Jihadism. Look at what has been going on in Venezuela. Chavez has been making friends with Qaddafi, the nutcase in Iran, and Syrian dictator Assad. The next election could very well bring in a far left government in Mexico. In a way, I hope it does, because then the facade will have been removed and maybe then our pols (a a majority of the people) will realize this thing is a whole lot more serious than they have been willing to admit.
It is a putrid evil made in hell, isn't it?
I have the sick feeling, that if what you site did evolve, there will still be those here that will deny it, and set us up for even more danger.
Germans reaping what they have sown.
"Unfortunately, muslims are converting a lot of Mexicans, and I think it is only going to get worse."
Where'd you hear that?
You can do a search on the internet, and find more information.
I don't know if I read it here or at church or where.
Here's some articles I found by doing a google search on Mexico and Muslim:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,358223,00.html
http://www.isim.nl/files/Review_15/Review_15-18.pdf
http://wais.stanford.edu/LatinAmerica/latinamer_0muslimsinmexandla7102.html
http://islamicsydney.com/story.php?id=507
There are plenty of other articles about the same thing.
It's very scary.
"The difference is that Mexicans are not brainwashing their children with that filthy koran."
No, thank God, they are not. The one's who are have been brought in and dumped on us all over the country as "refugees".
Here's the problem with "guest workers", they are just that, guests and guests are not supposed or expected to move in and become part of the family. But they do stay, in a sort of "non citizen" limbo which might be fine for the actual guest workers themselves, but as France, and soon Germany, has shown us, their children and grandchildren tend to be a bad lot with no loyalty or patriotic feelings for the country they live in. This is exacerbated by the availability of satellite TV from the home country. I see it all the time around here. The kids don't have a sense of belonging much of anywhere.
Our Hispanic illegals are different. They mean to stay here and as a consequence, most of them and certainly most of their kids and grandchildren develop a sense of belonging here, even with Mexican TV (by the way, I don't mean thos La Raza nuts).
Frankly, I'd rather see illegals here than "guest" workers. But I'd prefer neither.
Thank you for the links. I read through all but one of them and it sounds like a very interesting situation, to say the least.
More to the point, put a few Politizei in the school.
"Unfortunately, muslims are converting a lot of Mexicans, and I think it is only going to get worse."
How many is "a lot?"
Source?
You mean kinda like a New Yorker...or a Californian.
I very much admire their family structure and loyalty for one.
They also are the best, bar none, at work ethic. Machismo and hard work go hand in hand among their males.
They can do almost any job and are willing to do it for low pay if it will help the family unit.
Their species has been known to tie themselves under trains and ride for 18 hours, hike three days through mesquite thorns and cactus with little water, and risk their lives packed into trucks that travel through desert heat all to get a 8 dollar an hour job.
I don't like the effect on our country, but I very much respect the Mexican people.
Mr. Mazood blames the Germans for not being authoritarian enough.
Fine. Then Germany needs to give them all the boot. Force is the only thing they understand. But we knew that. Nazar even says so.
And to the liberals that's what really counts.
gOOD POINTS.
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