Ursula Sarrazin

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Ursula Sarrazin (* September 1951 as Ursula Breit ) is a German retired elementary school teacher in Berlin .

Life

Ursula Sarrazin is a daughter of the longstanding DGB chairman Ernst Breit . She entered the school service in 1973. She became known through press reports that she came across after disputes with parents of students whom she taught at primary schools in Berlin . For a time it was the focus of public discussions about school discipline and teacher authority ; as the wife of the controversial SPD politician and author Thilo Sarrazin , she was later invited to TV talk shows. Sarrazin resigned from the SPD after more than 40 years in protest against her husband's expulsion from the party.

Dispute over authoritarian behavior

Ursula Sarrazin taught from 1999 to 2002 at a primary school in Charlottenburg. She was accused of hitting a child with a recorder during this time, which Sarrazin vehemently denied. In autumn 2007, tensions arose between Ursula Sarrazin and the mother of one of her pupils after Sarrazin the child, who according to her mother was classified as highly gifted pupil who, according to the parents' wishes, should skip the second grade, without a decision of a class conference in the second She was relegated to the 3rd grade because, according to Ms. Sarrazin, she lacked the necessary maturity for the third grade. After an attempt at mediation by the responsible school council failed, the mother filed a complaint with the Berlin school inspectorate in April 2008. Sarrazin then sued the school administration and was ruled.

When the matter hit the media in 2008, other parents complained about Sarrazin's teaching style, accusing her of treating students in an intimidating, humiliating and excessively authoritarian manner, and of using an irrelevant tone to parents. Ursula Sarrazin replied that she was a demanding teacher and rejected the allegations. Sarrazin that of image was public appeal called "Germany's currently most controversial teacher," turned themselves to the public, entered into a talk show and gave interviews in which she criticized the academic performance decline. Many parents, she explained, do not care enough about the educational success of their children, and they are often unable to concentrate, use their hands skillfully, or follow instructions. Ursula Sarrazin also put together a catalog of proposals for reforms in the school system for the Bild newspaper in March 2011.

In May 2011, Sarrazin brought a lawsuit against the school administration for inaction because the parents' allegations against them had not yet been finally examined.

Sarrazin left school at his own request in the summer of 2011.

Book publication

In 2012 her book Witches Hunt was published , in which she describes her school service in Berlin. In November 2015, the Federal Court of Justice prohibited the further distribution of the book because the personal rights of one of her students named by her full name were violated. A third of the book's circulation was thrown away due to lack of sales.

Works

  • Witch hunt: My school service in Berlin . Düsseldorf / Cologne: Diederichs Verlag 2012. ISBN 978-3424350760

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parvin Sadigh: Dispute over Mrs. Sarrazin , Die Zeit, January 18, 2011
  2. ↑ Ulrich Zawatka-Gerlach: Ursula Sarrazin leaves the SPD - voluntary. Der Tagesspiegel , August 3, 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tagesspiegel Berlin: online "Did Ms. Sarrazin arrive with the recorder?" seen on March 21, 2012
  4. ↑ Martin Klesmann: “We demand an ombudsman position for parents” , Berliner Zeitung, November 6, 2008; Dagmar Rosenfeld: The Sarrazin Effect , Die Zeit, January 20, 2011
  5. ↑ Ursula Sarrazin wrote too extensively about deficits in a child. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The senator's wife causes a dispute , Berliner Zeitung, November 5, 2008.
  7. ↑ Antje Schmelcher: Too stubborn for Berlin? Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 27, 2011
  8. ↑ Sigrid Kneist, Susanne Vieth-Entus: Ursula Sarrazin no longer wants to teach , Tagesspiegel, January 25, 2011; In the wording: Ursula Sarrazin defends herself , Tagesspiegel, January 16, 2011.
  9. ↑ Germany's currently most controversial teacher speaks plain text: Ms. Sarrazin about stupid students, punishments, values ​​and who is bullied , picture, January 16, 2011
  10. ↑ Poets, thinkers, dull cheeks: Put Germany, 6 people at Maischberger , January 25, 2011 (video)
  11. ↑ Ursula Sarrazin complains of the students' ignorance Focus online, January 15, 2011
  12. ↑ Ursula Sarrazin: It's going wrong in our schools! Seven theses on education in schools , picture, March 1, 2011
  13. ↑ Ursula Sarrazin sues administration , Tagesspiegel, June 23, 2011; Boris Dombrowski: Ursula Sarrazin sued school authorities BZ, June 24, 2011
  14. ↑ Sigrid Kneist, Susanne Vieth-Entus: Ursula Sarrazin no longer wants to teach , Tagesspiegel , January 25, 2011
  15. ↑ a b Former teacher The Defeat of Ursula Sarrazin , welt.de, November 13, 2015
  16. ↑ a b BGH judgment on book by Berlin teacher Ursula Sarrazin wrote too extensively about deficits in a child , Der Tagesspiegel , November 4, 2015
  17. ↑ Book "Witches Hunt": Ursula Sarrazin fails before the BGH , FAZ.net , November 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sarrazin, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breit, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German elementary school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 1951