Shortage of teachers and poor working conditions in schools make verb appointment of teachers essential the officer costs the State money. Especially if it is old. Not a few request therefore the proportion of civil servants under the civil servants to reduce. Above all teachers are again mentioned in this context. Must a teacher of officer be? The majority of the population would probably deny this question. Some provinces have implemented the idea into action in the recent past: Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia. However, all these countries have withdrawn the scheme soon after they saw that their colleagues, free came under the economic principle and the mobility in other provinces as officials. In the course of the increasingly noticeable shortage of teachers, particularly in science, today more and more States soften the old regime, according to which only until the 35.Lebensjahr is established.
In some countries, the 50.Lebensjahr has become the magic barrier. However, not only the competition of Federal countries speaks against an abolition of the teacher’s civil service. The full teacher is very convenient for the State. Firstly one can prescribe a certain number of unpaid overtime him, what is also abundantly used, on the other hand the officer has only limited rights. Not just any overtime must be paid hired teachers, much more serious, employees the full right to strike of civil servants, however, does not possess. For years get more and more frightening reports from the schools to the public. Teachers are accosted, spat at and threatened teaching is often still limited. The decades of Bildungssparkurs raises obvious dark shadow: only mediocre academic achievement, unreasonable working conditions for all those involved, high potential for aggression and last but not least the unfortunately always gehaufter-occurring attacks teacher well outside the school faced, as the deed to a 35-year-old teacher in Bremen makes clear a few days ago.