Rütli School

Rütlistraße 41, 12045 Berlin

The first Community School (formerly Riitli High School, Heinrich -Heine- high school and Franz Schubert Elementary School ) since 2009, a Community School in Berlin -Neukölln. In the school year 2005/2006 the Riitli school only had 267 students and was known nationwide as a teacher in March 2006 at the Berlin Senator for Education in an " urgent letter " the closure of the school demanded, because they could no longer withstand the violence by students. This led to an internal political debate about the school system in Germany, violence in schools and the integration of children with a migrant background.

History

The school building was as 32./33. Community Colleges of Rixdorf ( Neukölln) opened in October 1909. During World War II it served as barracks, as of January 1920 and, as a classroom building. 1921 1400 students attended the educational institution. From Easter 1923 received two schools in the building, the 31st and the 32nd to officially act permission as secular community school (without religious instruction and with mixed classes). The third school, the 41./42. , Was re-established and undertaken only as a secular school / collecting school for boys and girls. Characteristic of the democratic- reformist approach of the schools were the educational views of their rectors Wilhelm Wittbrodt and Adolf Jensen and the educational commitment of many teachers and parents; Kathe was called Draeger, who taught there after 1926. Working groups, tours and other educational reform teaching forms and methods influenced many students vintages.

Immediately after the "seizure of power " of the Nazis, the school was resolved in the mentioned form. In 1943 a hospital was built within the walls.

As a school, the building was taken in June 1945 in operation. In 1960 the school - after the name of the street where it is located and which is named after the Swiss Riitli - officially renamed Riitli high school. In 1966, in the main school, it was possible to complete a voluntary 10th grade, which 1979 requirement for the advanced secondary school and also at higher power requirements and good grade profile opened up the possibility of a high-school diploma.

Demographic student data at the time of crisis

In the school year 2005/2006 there were 13 classes with 142 boys and 126 girls. Of the students were about 35 percent Arab, 25 percent Turkish and 17 percent of German descent. Approx. 80 percent of the students were Muslims. The diverse backgrounds of the students demonstrated their pedagogical challenge as early as 2004 reported the then Rector of the school, Brigitte pick, in the press that the multicultural integration attempts threaten to fail ( " I see a great despair among teachers. "). She herself had also been threatened ( threatening letter, " Islam is victorious "). According to Brigitte Pick " is the real problem neither in the Arab, Turkish or Serbian, but in the social background of the students and their lack of prospects. Thus, a training place in the last school year, no student. On the other hand denied the teachers education, which prepares future teachers to the social reality. "

• Fire letter 2006: In March 2006, the school came into the headlines when it became public that the teachers had allegedly demanded the dissolution of the school. This was later denied as untrue, but the teacher had called the Senate a solution to the problem of violence at the school and the conversion of the school to another school form.

The former Berlin Senator for Education, Klaus Boeger, said that no school location Berlin should be abandoned. For the teachers stand police protection available to accommodate adequate teaching can. In an interview with the station RBB told the leaders that in future three social workers would help to get the problem under control. In April 2006, the new interim rector Helmut Hochschild and school spokeswoman Katrin El- Mahmout asked about the media and politicians to draw the school either in the beginning of the election campaign of Berlin continues to refer to the device as a "hate school". In particular, were allegations journalists had paid students for violence scenes. With the guidance of Riitli school was from October 2006 to the summer of 2009 Aleksander Dzembritzki commissioned. In February 2007, Brigitte Pick published a book in which she summed up her experience as head of the Riitli school. The title was supplemented media attention from it by a series in the tabloid Bild.

New school organizational approaches

From the school year 2009/2010 passes Cordula Heckmann according to a pilot trial in the Senate, which provides at least one community school per district, the newly founded " 1 Community School " Neukölln to the addition to the classes of the years 1, 2, 7 and 8, the cohorts 3-6 of the former Franz- Schubert -Schule ( elementary school ) and the cohorts 9 and 10 of the former Riitli school ( Hauptschule) and Heinrich Heine school (Realschule) belong. A " secondary education" is planned. The first community school is the center of the campus ' Riitli and key school of the project "One Square Kilometre of Education ".

In the last school year, the first phase of construction began on the "Campus Riitli ", and the community school received a canteen, modern science rooms, new year transition staff room and office spaces. Minor areas of chemistry, physics, biology, music and visual arts, the school has a school kitchen, a wood and a metal workshop, four computer rooms and has two gyms. The school museum was created in collaboration with the artist Günter Evertz.

In the school year 2009/2010 there were 17 classes. 90 % of the students were non-German origin. In the Berlin community schools, the composition of the student body of the school enrollment should remain the same until graduation. The aim is that all pupils together with and learn from each other regardless of the recommendation of the primary school and of their social, cultural or ethnic origin and gender, independent of any religious affiliation and regardless of disability. The focus of the lesson planning are in within differentiated, student-centered approach to heterogeneous classes and individual support. The motto is: " A school for all! No student left behind " ( pilot ).

Community schools are day schools. This means that lasts four days a week the school day 8-16 clock. The students have the opportunity to choose from a wide choice mandatory offer, which takes place mainly in the afternoon. This is followed by an extensive tutoring program to prepare for the tenth graders on the intermediate school degree in the subjects German, English and mathematics. Additional preparatory courses may be available in the school holidays rather than as holiday camps. There is a lunch break serve meals both in the cafeteria and in the cafeteria. This is followed by a " lunch band" with a wide range of leisure and learning opportunities. In Campus Riitli courses of climbing, chess, drums, table tennis, computer, theater, Turkish, Arabic and instrumental lessons are offered.

Current educational projects

On 1 September 2006, the elective started boxing. The offer is an attempt to teach young people about the sport rules and values ​​. The initiator and manager of this project, Michael Bensch, documented the progress of this project on the internet blog.

In the year 2006/2007 the project " Riitli Wear " was started. Here, students can produce the eighth to tenth classes in the screen-printing process T -shirts with own graphics and market online. They acquire graphic, craft and computer skills both in the classroom and in the workshop of a printing company. The plan is in addition to the establishment of the Student Company " T -shirt production" whose earnings are to be paid into a school fund in order to give the commercial aspects of the project from the hands of three student initiators in Student Handbook.

From 22 to 24 May 2006, a three-day workshop with the U.S., founded in 1962 Group show Young Americans took place. A crowd of over 900 students leading to the conclusion of the workshop a musical.

" Dropping out " to be brought back by a variety of measures into the process of life with a future.

In 2007, a sponsorship contract between the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Rütli School was signed.

In support of early professional orientation of pupils, the school is supported by a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG.

Famous former students

• Horst Bosetzky, students from 1946 to 1951, known Berlin mystery writer (pseudonym -ky )
• Arno Funke, department store blackmailers, known under the pseudonym Dagobert
• Hanno Günther, student 1928-1934, German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Hildegard Jadamowitz, communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Wolfgang Ruge (from 1933, Su, labor camp until 1956, and SED historian )
• Werner Steinbrink, communist resistance fighter against National Socialism, a member of the Herbert Baum Group

Well-known former teacher

• Herbert buses, progressive education and the education policy, a Communist; Teacher, vice-principal ( 31 community school) and City Council (1945 ) in Berlin- Neukölln, later various offices in the SBZ / DDR
• Käthe Draeger, communist politician, educator and psychoanalyst. Teacher (Set 1926)
• Fritz Hoffmann, educational reformer, " singing " teachers and principals at the time " 31 Community school "and from 1948/49, an important unit school in Berlin Neukölln ( Britz ), today's Fritz Karsen Community School 08K06
• Adolf Jensen, Socialist reform pedagogue and Others in Hamburg and Berlin -Neukölln, a professor in Braunschweig
• Fritz Lange, Teacher ( 1919-24 at the 32 community school), a communist journalist, educational policy makers, city councilor, popular education minister of the GDR
• Bruno Lindtner, educational reformer, social democrat and an active member of the Red fighters in Berlin- Neukölln, prison, penal battalion, head of an anti-fascist school, the SED Party School Grunau, the folk high school in Berlin -Köpenick
• Friedrich Weigelt, Socialist reform pedagogue, trade unionists, publicist and journalist, school board
• Wilhelm Wittbrodt, social democratic reform educator, politician and esperantist. Teacher and then school director (1925-1933) and after 1945 the main school board