Overview
- Brandenburg’s Landeselternrat urges immediate personnel increases, calling for more school social workers, psychologists, and regular teacher training for handling violence.
- The ministry defends its response at the Cottbus school, citing a deployed security service, involvement of police and the school authority, ongoing prevention projects, and a standing taskforce.
- Officials report eight registered bodily-injury cases in 2025 at the school of 468 pupils, which the ministry describes as socially particularly burdened.
- Policy context includes a 2025 cut of 345 full-time teacher positions in Brandenburg, with teachers scheduled to teach one additional hour per week in the second half of the school year.
- The ministry plans to move mandatory language assessment before school entry up by one year, while AfD lawmakers allege underreporting as students fear filing complaints and ministry data shows statewide school crimes fell to 3,209 last year.