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Last month’s 2024 Youth Study showed a digitalization deficit in schools, with students saying they don’t feel prepared to find a job and manage the challenges of real life.

The Berlin education minister recently had to send a letter to 800 schools to warn them that a false report was going viral on Tiktok, urging participation in a “National Rape Day.”

He says the situation has changed dramatically over the past few years and blames smartphones and social media use for the increase in stress, exhaustion, self-doubt and listlessness that has been observed.

The months-long closure of schools is sometimes considered the biggest mistake made during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic: German pupils had to stay at home for more than 180 days, far longer than in many European countries.

Smaller classes, more teachers, a good support system with social workers and psychologists — that’s what Müller proposes in order to get Germany’s schools back on track.

The head of a grammar school in Bavaria told DW that he advocates a zero-tolerance policy: “At a certain point we enter the realm of criminal law,” he said.

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