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Feature photo: Snapshot of a meeting place in Europe

meeting opportunities

Harald Schmidt rightly writes in the Heilbronnerstimme (October 14.10.2022, 26: XNUMX) that “people with a migration background … [are] mostly underrepresented in local politics.” And Herbert Burkhardt In this context, laments "the often low interest of people with a migration background in public life." The bird shoots, however Andrea Babic from the Greens, "who would like more activities within the city to get to know each other."

Correctly, the Heilbronner voice illustrated the article by Harald Schmidt with one Meeting point Europe the time when Heilbronn was still exemplary in terms of integration and cooperation between all groups within our city. But then the city administration, under the leadership of the mayor and with the consent of the municipal council, took a completely different direction and torpedoed one event after the other, which were particularly suitable for getting to know each other.

I suspect that our municipal councils and administrative employees did not do this because they have something against foreigners and migrants in principle, but solely because they were not given control over these voluntary actions and could not make any profit from them either.

So now it has to be clarified who can earn what or benefit from it, and then maybe there will be something like functioning events to get to know each other again. But how our Heilbronners with a migration background should then regain trust in our city councils and our administration remains their secret.

It certainly won't help that the city administration is now offering to support specific associations with their projects in their home countries. The only right way is to take all of our fellow citizens - regardless of their origin - seriously as citizens and to work together with them on a better Heilbronn. And this also at the risk that new fellow citizens will also benefit from the advantages of working on the municipal council or in the administration.

ministry

Since May 12, 2021 is Theresa Schopper Minister and maybe even responsible for something like our schools. According to the dpa, she has now established that "it [is] alarming when 20 percent of the children no longer have optimal reading performance." She further concludes: "We run the risk of dismissing some of the children as functionally illiterate from primary school."

When I formulated this years ago after my first assignments as a reading mentor, I was demonized on all sides. Unfortunately, this sudden realization from the very person who is responsible for this entire misery is not a satisfaction, it only shows how necessary it would be for our state government to start doing its own job in addition to wild parties and even wilder freeway races make!

But perhaps the problem is quite different, namely that our country is only in such a good position because our state governments have not bothered about their job at all for decades and all the problems only arise because of this and when a minister actually thinks so to do something political. In any case, when our ministers still wore nicknames like “Feschtles-Marie”, all of us schoolchildren could do arithmetic, read and write by the time we finished elementary school at the latest.

And so maybe it's not so bad after all if our state government and this as a whole dingles from one sight to the next and this as far away as possible. It's said to be particularly beautiful in Papua New Guinea or New Zealand. Maybe then our teachers will have time to teach our children to read and write.


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  • 'It is all too likely to come true' has already been said of Huxley. Sounds familiar over and over again.