Carinthian elementary pedagogy at the limit: government has to act!

Carinthian elementary pedagogy at the limit: government has to act!

The Carinthian elementary educators are under enormous pressure and feel abandoned by the state government. As Roland Ressmann, parliamentary group leader of the alternative independent trade unionists Carinthia, emphasizes, the promised reduction in group sizes in kindergartens was postponed to a maximum of 20 children to 2027. Despite the already existing enormous challenges in everyday professional life, this happens, which bring many educators to the physical and psychological limits. Numerous specialists already acknowledge their job prematurely because they cannot imagine working in such a stressful environment to the pension.

Urgent need for action required

Ressmann warns that the problems that arise in the kindergartens often run through the entire education system. One example is the city of Ferlach, where an elementary worker has been searched for for a year. The emotional address of an affected educator at this year's child protection conference could be the necessary impulse to revitalize the discussion about working conditions in early childhood education. The independent union calls on the Carinthian state government to take responsibility, since the children are ultimately the future of the country, as Ressmann emphasizes.

In a further context, the documentary "Our Austria: Carinthia-A Century under Mittagskogel", which is broadcast on Friday, September 9th, at 11:05 p.m. in ORF 2, the extraordinary history of the Carinthian-Slovenian Ressmann from Ledenitzen. The film, produced by ORF and funded by various institutions, traces the eventful history of this family over a century and illuminates the effects of nationalism on Carinthia. He not only gives insights into the Ressmann family, but also into the multi -layered cultural history of the region, which has an effect on the present, how Tv.orf.at reports.