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Philip Spenner
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Philip Spenner, the first black teacher in Hamburg schools, would like more teachers with a migrant background. “We need teachers who understand the world of their students,” says the 41-year-old. But ever since he first stood in the classroom a few years ago and started teaching, otherwise hardly changed anything: Most of your colleagues still come from the middle class, so many students have little contact with everyday life.
He himself sees as a great advantage that he himself empathize with students’ problems may. “I know what it means to come from a home where five people have to live in a few square meters, without internet or laptops, and parents who do not speak German,” he says. The fact that you speak Swahili, which is related to Arabic, is usually a big plus. “Many people with a migratory background often see themselves, depending on the situation, to see themselves in the role of victims,” says Spenner, who grew up as an orphan in Kenya and came to Germany at the age of 20. But this rarely happens to a teacher with an immigration background.
