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History teacher Samuel Paty, murdered in Paris, will be commemorated in Berlin schools: “The Senate Department of Education, Youth and Family invites all secondary schools to participate in this minute of silence,” says a letter to the Education Senator Sandra Scheeres (SPD) wrote to all high schools on Friday.
The letter is available to the Tagesspiegel. The minute of silence will be observed next Monday at 11:15 am.
Paty was killed in an Islamist attack on October 16. In his class on freedom of expression, the teacher had shown cartoons of the prophet Muhammad from the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo”: “He had previously offered his students to look the other way if they did not want to face the drawings,” writes Scheeres. To be able to explain.
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In addition, the senator points out in her letter that the initiative for the minute of silence came from the French government. The French embassy in Berlin had sent a message from the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanque, to the secretariat of the Conference of Ministers of Education. The Conference of Ministers of Education agreed to support this appeal.
“Expressing attachment to France”
“With a minute of silence we can express our solidarity with France and our condolences,” emphasized Scheeres. Berlin schools could “send a sign of solidarity with teachers” who campaigned for democratic coexistence.
The senator also suggested that the background to the Paris attack should be discussed in class and that students should be “re-sensitized to tolerance and solidarity, as well as violence and extremism.”
After the attack, the Berlin Ethics Teachers Association and the History Teachers Association spoke in favor of an open discussion on trends towards radicalization.
In order to react adequately to the “pressure that is hostile to the rule of law”, an “empowerment of school and department directors” is necessary, is the evaluation of the president of Association of history teachers in a contribution to the Tagesspiegel.
