Against “radical narratives” – the pinnacle of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution requires political training in major faculties | EUROtoday

Lower Saxony’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Dirk Pejril, encourages political classes in elementary faculty. Political training should begin sooner than earlier than, he advised the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung”.

“For example, the values ​​of a democratic society can be taught in primary school.” Young folks have been influenced by social media early on, the place they discovered “radical narratives”. In Lower Saxony, politics is taught from the seventh grade onwards.

The President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentioned: “It is no longer unusual for students to openly speak out in favor of remigration in class and to support the AfD.” The State Student Council had beforehand advocated that political training must be ready in a child-friendly method in major faculty. Education Minister Julia Willie Hamburg (Greens) rejected the demand: “We already have a significant shortage of skilled workers in Lower Saxony.”

SPD politician Karl Lauterbach additionally helps the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s proposal. “There are always concerns. But if elementary schools warned about TikTok and radicals in politics and there was 1 hour of health education, we would help the next generation a lot,” wrote Lauterbach on X.