While teachers were occupied with the ongoing tenth-grade exams, the ninth-graders were handed over to LGBT+ activists, who were to conduct “workshops” for them throughout the entire exam week. Already on the second day, German school students were introduced to gay pornography as part of the activists’ project. The school principal had not previously discussed the project’s details with the parents.
The children’s parents, who were disturbed and had been told about the “project” taking place at the school, requested anonymity after describing the situation. They feared that revealing their children’s identities would expose them to ostracism at school or other unpleasant consequences.
A model Saxon school near the Polish border
The entire incident took place in mid-March. From 16 to 20 March, tenth-grade exams were held at the Schleife secondary school in the Görlitz district of Saxony. With the principal’s approval, although, despite his educational duty, he had not consulted the parents about this plan, the students were left solely with LGBT activists in order to relieve the staff responsible for conducting the exams. No teachers were present during the “workshops.”
“The principal himself brought these people into the classroom and then left us alone with them,”
one of the female students recounted.
For many years, the Schleife secondary school has prided itself on a high standard of teaching and safety. It has repeatedly been held up as a model by CDU politicians governing the state. Just a few years ago, the reputation of the high school in Schleife was so good that Michael Kretschmer, the CDU head of the state government, described it as “Champions League” level when it came to education.
Homosexual pornography and political aggression
However, the incident involving the “LGBT project” has severely damaged the trust of both students and parents, as well as local politicians.
It turned out that two female activists were to take care of the 14- and 15-year-old students. They introduced themselves to the teenagers as members of the theatrical project “Courage!” and used fictional names, explaining that “these names belonged to the gender with which they did not identify.”
On the first day, the activists, together with the ninth-graders, prepared a wall newspaper dedicated to LGBT ideas. Then everyone was supposed to introduce themselves using a pronoun rather than a name. One of the fathers reported that one of the female students introduced herself by her actual name and expressed the wish to be addressed that way. However, this did not meet with the approval of the “substitute teachers.” The request was allegedly dismissed with a dismissive gesture from the “teachers.” One of the project leaders reportedly also allowed herself to comment that after “Nazi Saxony,” nothing else could be expected.
On the second day, the activists took the ninth-graders into the forest, divided them into pairs, and blindfolded one person in each pair. The young people were then supposed to run between designated points “like savages.”
“After this activity ended, the activists opened two backpacks they had brought with them and scattered their contents on the ground. Among them were various pornographic photographs of men having sex, including oral sex. The 14- and 15-year-olds also found pictures of naked, hairy male buttocks and penises. (…) In addition, leaflets with anti-AfD slogans were found on the ground, including “F*CK the AfD” and “Höcke is a Nazi,”
reports the magazine Junge Freiheit, which exposed the scandal.
An educational, political, and criminal scandal
Two pairs of parents filed a complaint against the activists at the police station in Weißwasser. Another pair of parents later joined them. The subject of the complaint is the distribution of pornography to children under the age of 18, which in Germany can carry a prison sentence of up to one year.
The Saxon Ministry of Education announced that it would investigate whether there had been a violation of educational law regulations. Angry parents of the ninth-graders claim that the school principal, Jan Rehor, violated the provision stating that “the purpose, content, and form of family and sexual education must be communicated to parents in due time and discussed with them.”
The case quickly took on a political dimension as well. In Saxony, the AfD enjoys exceptionally high support among residents. Almost everywhere in Germany, student council elections are held just before the state and federal elections. In the Görlitz district and city, the AfD received 43 percent of the votes. In the direct elections, AfD MP Tino Chrupalla received 48.9 percent of the votes in the Görlitz electoral district. Chrupalla has already called on the ruling CDU in Saxony to launch an investigation.
“I support the councillors in their demand that the CDU mayor of Schleife, Jörg Funda, and the school investigate the matter. I demand the same from the Saxon CDU Minister of Education, Conrad Clemens,”
stated the AfD MP.
The parents also accuse the school of violating the requirement of educational neutrality through the workshops. Both many students and parents were displeased by the activists’ vulgar attack on a political group that enjoys strong support in the local community.