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Key FactsAfD Education Plans Unsettle Schools in Saxony-Anhalt
Aug 30, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
  • The AfD manifesto proposes a choice between school and home education, tougher grammar-school access and ending inclusive education.

  • The AfD says teachers should remain strictly politically neutral; complaints and sanctions are planned for violations.

  • Teacher Max Heckel was reprimanded after an AfD complaint; court proceedings are scheduled for November.

  • A BFAS-commissioned legal opinion says inclusive education and separate classes for refugee children could be clearly unlawful; school-law changes would nevertheless remain possible.
  • I must not overwhelm a child. I must not push my own opinion on them. I must present what is discussed controversially in politics and society in a controversial way as well. I must present different positions. And I must empower children to develop their own opinions. But there are limits: I do not have to present racism as an equally valid counter-position. That is where it ends.
    — Eva Gerth, chairwoman of GEW (Education Union), on the Beutelsbach Consensus
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