School Frustration - 10 Things I Hate About School

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School Frustration - 10 Things I Hate About School is a non-fiction book by Viviane Cismak that, according to Die Welt, had sold over 25,000 times by early 2012.

Background and content

The author Viviane Cismak (* 1991) came to Berlin-Kreuzberg from Darmstadt / Hessen. Before that, she completed the 11th grade of an ancient language high school in her hometown. When she switched school, she noticed the differences in the level of school instruction between the two federal states. She processed the experiences of her school days in the book "Schulfrust". At the Kreuzberg school she attended, over 80 percent of the students have a migration background.

The 10 theses are:

  1. Achievement is not worth it
  2. Curricula are often not adhered to because there is no controlling body
  3. The school is degenerating into a repository
  4. Sanctions against students are arbitrary
  5. Insufficiently thought out reforms make the situation in the school system worse
  6. Education federalism makes schools incomparable at the federal level
  7. Sexism and anti-Semitism are tolerated in schools
  8. Children of HartzIV recipients have an advantage over children of low-income parents
  9. Teachers assign grades at random
  10. Teachers don't take their job seriously

reception

In the Berliner Zeitung, "school frustration" was praised as "(...) the first comprehensive criticism of the education system from a pupil's perspective". In the Berliner Kurier, a father and Hartmut Schurig, state chairman of the education union GEW Berlin, agree to Cismak's theses.

In the Tagesspiegel and in the Focus, however, her criticism of educational federalism and the lack of performance monitoring of the teachers was appreciated, but otherwise the book is a collection of personal anecdotes, a settlement with everything and everyone, boring to read and annoying due to its instructive nature. In the FAZ "Schulfrust" was praised with the following words: "The teachers do badly in" Schulfrust ", and yet the criticism is more differentiated than that of Chancellor Schröder, who mocked" lazy sacks ". That is not so much because of that that at Cismak there are teachers who make demands on the students and on themselves. It is because the nineteen-year-old not only complains about her experiences, but also reflects on the system that allows such abuses. "

Excerpts from the book were distributed by the tabloid Bild in early 2012 . Bildblog summarized the selection as "three quarters of the mood against people with a migration background, one quarter against Hartz IV recipients" and noted that this did not correspond to the weighting of the book.

literature

  • Viviane Cismak: School frustration - 10 things I hate about school . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2011, ISBN 978-3-86265-065-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School frustration - the drama of the gifted child welt.de,
  2. ↑ The Berlin high school graduate Viviane Cismak settles accounts with the education system: Damn angry with the school , berliner-zeitung.de
  3. ↑ Criticism right: student settles accounts with teachers in a book , berliner-kurier.de
  4. ↑ Book review: Schulfrust-Tagebuch , focus.de
  5. ↑ Schulfrust - A book about ten things that you can hate at school , tagesspiegel.de
  6. ↑ Book published: A high school graduate calculates , faz.net
  7. ↑ Lukas Heinser : School's Out , Bildblog, January 25, 2012