Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Despite the massive shortage of teachers, Minister of Education Theresa Schopper does not believe in coercive measures such as temporary overtime, a restriction on part-time work or transfers to shortage regions. One has successes with voluntary extra work, but many teachers are on the attack, the Green politicians told the "Südwest Presse" (Monday). "If we throw even more at them now, we'll end up in the devil's kitchen." Rather, one tries to allow more lateral and direct entrants. "We look at which changers from other industries we integrate, which foreign qualifications we accept and how we can qualify while working." But there is no one silver bullet.
In the interview, Schopper called the announcement by Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) that he would poach teachers from other federal states in the event of re-election an "unfriendly act". There was an agreement in the Conference of Ministers of Education not to poach teachers from each other. But Schopper also said: "This pistolero attitude of the Bavarian Prime Minister doesn't scare me. He has state elections in the fall and now he has to drum up a lot."
Söder had previously announced that Bavaria also wanted to poach educators from other countries in order to cover its own need for teachers. With the Stralsund declaration of 2009, the federal states had actually agreed to refrain from offensively poaching teachers.
