Donkey corner
A donkey corner is a colloquial expression still used in Germany today for a place to which a person is referred who has committed a "donkey" - a careless, stupid, foolish act - or who is accused of being forgetful. Example: "That's why you belong in the donkey corner!"
origin
The term donkey corner comes from the time when loads were transported with donkeys and these were tied in a corner, e.g. B. in the back of a church. Since the donkeys were mistakenly classified as stupid animals, this was used colloquially.
Punishment in school
The in-the-corner-points , go into the donkey corner or in Austria Winkerlstehen one was punishment for unruly students ( punishment standing ). He then had to go to a certain corner of the classroom and stand there, sometimes with his face to the wall, until the teacher released him from it. According to a recent legal commentary from 1997, this type of punishment is considered a “degrading educational measure” in Germany and is therefore now prohibited. In 2012 a ban for Austria was promised.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silvia Staub, Andrea Lier: School penalties. Teaching materials: life studies. zebis - portal for teachers. BKZ office Lucerne (Switzerland), October 18, 2006, pp. 9–14 (PDF 15 pp., 1.5 MB).
- ↑ a b Antje Doberer-Bey, Angelika Hrubesch: live = read? Literacy and basic education in a multilingual society. Exercise book, year 38, booklet 149/2013, June 10, 2013, Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, ISBN 978-3-7065-5281-3 . (PDF, 154 p., 665 kB), p. 22.
- ↑ Kaija Kutter: Clean schoolyards. CDU politician Heinemann combines learning German with sanctions and is thus alone. Degrading punishments are prohibited in Hamburg. taz - Die Tageszeitung from: January 31, 2006, p. 22.
- ↑ ORF: "Methods from the last millennium" - Off for punishments like "Winkerlestand". news.ORF.at, Österreichische Rundfunk - ORF, Vienna, from: March 14, 2012 ( archive ).