Chapter 15 12. Let the mansion start a war

MM: There is really nothing worth talking about this month. I am preparing for the graduation exam every day, although football is still played.Also because I was studying hard every day, what happened on Friday was even more strange.At noon that day, the entire class of grades ten to thirteen was called to the meeting hall to assemble.When I got to the conference hall, I saw the principal standing in front with a microphone.We were all surprised. Something earth-shattering must have happened to cause such a battle.You also know that German schools generally have no assembly, such as morning assembly, weekly assembly, flag raising and lowering, school opening or closing, and so on.

After everyone was seated, the principal began to explain: A student union official in our high school—let’s call him John—was beaten and injured by some strangers. Our school will never allow such a thing to happen. He appealed to all The students were united, condemned the violence, and gave moral support to the injured students. Well, everyone is shocked.But then the "rumors" began, and the "rumors" were confirmed: John was beaten by a student of the school, but the so-called "siege" was actually a small group of people surrounding him to reason and slap him. so.

The school summoned us to cultivate an atmosphere of unity and mutual love, but when the truth came out, many people, including me, felt super disgusted.What are you doing, we are students in the graduating class, and we are taking a key class, and when we interrupt the lecture, someone slapped a student? MM may think, Hey, Andre, why are you so immoral and lacking in compassion, you should support the student who was beaten. I can only tell you, MM, I have been in this middle school for nine years, and this matter is a joke in the eyes of my friends and me.Kronborg Middle School is a typical wealthy suburban middle school. It is usually quiet, but I haven't seen students chasing after with knives, or fighting with baseball bats.

The bureau knew about it, but never cared about it.Why are you suddenly so "positive" this time? See if I can make it clear to you.German secondary schools are divided into three categories. As you know, "main secondary schools" (grades 5 to 9) are the most basic national basic education. After graduation, students usually can only drive trucks, collect garbage, work as dock workers, etc., or even not at all. If you can't find a job; "Industrial Middle School" (grades five to ten) is mainly vocational education, training various craftsmen and technicians, from bakers, carpenters and locksmiths to office clerks, all come out here; and then Gymnasium "Complete middle school" (grades 5 to 13) is equivalent to a preparatory class for universities, cultivating future academic elites.Our school is a comprehensive middle school with all three categories on one campus.

The fights I saw basically took place in the classes of the "backbone middle school". Many of these students came from low-income families, and most of them were new immigrants—Muslims from Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey.Immigrants have many difficulties in adapting, so many students also come from problem families.Well, you understand my disgust now, don't you?Why do you not care when those students are chasing after them with knives, and why are you suddenly so nervous and solemn when a student from "Complete Middle School" is slapped? It is common for young people to have conflicts, but this is the first time I have seen someone go to school with a serious accusation.I dare not say that I understand "jianghu", but I believe that I know how to deal with "those people" and even make friends. "Those people" weren't all hooligans.In fact, Muslims do not drink alcohol or do drugs.They just have very different values ​​than middle-class Germans, especially what is meant by "respect" or "honor".They may show relatively strong aggressiveness, but the main problem is that they have different value identification.I know John who was beaten up. His family is very rich and he is a naive, timid and fearful person. His ideas are completely based on the extremely conservative values ​​of the rich middle class.I mean, he's one of those young people who never sneaks out at night to meet friends and "my mom says" all the time, lives in a "white bread" world and has no idea what the real world is like thing.

But what happened later really pissed me off.There is a student forum on the school website, where many colleagues discuss the "John incident".A girl named "Annie" wrote: Our school is becoming more and more degraded and inferior, and has become a place where thugs, the proletariat, and white suspicion run rampant.If this continues, I think that when our school admits students in the future, it should first look at the student's family background and social class, and then decide whether he is qualified enough to enter.I can't really be prouder of the school anymore, there are more and more "that" students... that's ridiculous, MM, I don't approve of violence, I admit most of the fights happen in the main middle schools" and I admit most The "backbone middle school" students come from the so-called "lower class" and there are really many problems with the "lower class", but I can't accept that the school uses these students as scapegoats for problems. I can't stand this typical Private school elite thinking, snobbery, arrogance, self-conceited, thinking that one's "born" is good, and the country belongs to him. Do you know how I responded to that "Annie"? Only wrote one sentence:

"Let there be peace in the cabin, and war in the mansion!" Andre