More than 1,000 teachers in the German state of Hesse have called for comprehensive changes in an incendiary letter, which has been delivered to the state’s Ministry of Culture. In the letter, they state that many elementary school children are not able to complete simple tasks such as tying their shoes or use toilet paper.

“Keeping order, recognizing and adhering to rules, using the toilet independently,“ are all listed as tasks students cannot do in the new resolution, which includes using toilet paper themselves.

Students can also no longer “cut, glue, sit (upright), or tie their shoes,“ the report reads, which was reported widely in the German media, including Welt.

Citing the letter, Junge Freiheit also reports that “independent personal hygiene is not always a given – colleagues even reported students who did not know how to use toilet paper.”

The letter also states that the children feature serious attention deficits, with the teachers writing: “Many children are no longer able to listen or follow instructions for long periods of time.”

The damning letter comes at a time when Hesse is experiencing unprecedented mass immigration, including into its school system. Already in 2022, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration reported that an estimated 50 percent of all children under the age of 6 were foreigners or had a foreign background. In the last three years since the report, many of these children have entered the elementary school system.

Teachers also report in the letter that they need to spend an enormous amount of time teaching children simple skills, many that were once taken for granted.

Furthermore, the letter states that “cutting, gluing or asking questions in class are untrained activities for many students.”

As Remix News has already outlined in dozens of pieces on the German and broader European education system, there is a rapid breakdown occurring in educational outcomes and growing chaos in the school environment. In addition, ethnic German children are increasingly the target of bullying, while many German parents retreat with their children into private schools or into wealthier neighborhoods.

These same problems are reflected in the latest letter from teachers in Hesse, although teachers do not directly address the rising tide of foreign students. They write that fundamental social challenges for many children include: “recognizing rules, maintaining order, resolving conflicts fairly or reconciling.”

Notably, 40 percent of all violent crimes in German schools are perpetrated by foreigners, including two knife-related attacks per day. The individual stories of beatings and other horrors continue to pile up.

As Remix News has reported in the past, teachers are “spit on” and “insulted” in schools with a high percentage of immigrants. Constant classroom chaos, different languages, clashing cultures, and violent students, are degrading Germany’s education system at an alarming rate, all while countries like China, which rejected mass immigration, continue to pull ahead in terms of innovation and educational outcomes.

Now, news that students cannot even tie their shoes or use toilet paper is further underlining the collapse in the German school system.

“Many teachers had long been working at their limits,” according to the woman who initiated the letter, Deputy Chairwoman of the GEW Heike Ackermann, who added that “students were abandoned by politicians and so were we teachers.“

She stated that the scope of work is constantly expanding, with tasks like “democracy education, digitalization, integration and inclusion” becoming almost unmanageable without a new framework.

She called for smaller classes with a maximum of 20 children, more qualified teachers and additional psychologists. However, it remains unclear who will pay for these measures or how any such policies will actually be implemented.

She also notes that the situation may only grow worse, as an additional challenge is looming with the legal right to all-day care for all families, set to arrive in the 2026/2027 school year.

The state Ministry of Culture announced that it would “examine the resolution carefully.”

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