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Rights and Obligations
Youth Protection, Compulsory Schooling, Driving Licence
Three girls of different ages: Anna is 17, Paula 15 and Lena 13. Before the law, their respective ages have consequences – because children and adolescents have different rights and also obligations. Lena is in the seventh form. Like every morning, she walks to school together with Paula because they have the same way. But now she has received an SMS from Paula. Caption WhatsApp: “My first lesson has been cancelled. Let’s hang out together?” Lena would like to. Should she skip school today? Franz Pfleger is a lawyer. He knows that children and young people not only have rights but also obligations. One of them is compulsory schooling. Original soundtrack Franz Pfleger, lawyer: “Compulsory schooling is regulated by the federal states in Germany. It is subject to different rules in each state and can comprise nine or ten years, but there is compulsory vocational education, too. Thus, every child in Germany attends school for twelve years.” Truants will face punishment, even if their parents approve of it, for instance, to fly to a holiday destination earlier. Parents are not allowed to release their child from class unless it is ill. They are even responsible for ensuring that their child attends to its duty to go to school. Original soundtrack Franz Pfleger, lawyer: “If, for example, parents go on holiday one or two days earlier and take their children with them, and if they get caught, they will have to pay a steep fine, up to a four-figure amount, and the fine will be determined depending on the gravity of the offence.” Serial truants may even be picked up by the police. No, Lena does not want this to happen to her and her parents. She prefers to go to school.
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Peer Mediation
Lena and Max attend the 7th form. Max is new in class. During a break, Max notices that Lena and her friend are laughing at him again. Max loses his temper! He slaps Lena in the face. That hurts and Lena runs back into the classroom with a red cheek. The growing conflict between the two has escalated. Just like Lena and Max, every day pupils all over Germany have rows with each other. At the Heinrich Hertz Gymnasium in Thuringia, pupils have been trained as mediators for years. At set hours, they are in a room made available by the school specifically for mediation purposes. The film describes the growing conflict between Max and Lena and shows a mediation using their example. In doing so, the terms “conflict” and “peer mediation” are explained in a non-technical way. The aims of peer mediation and its progress in five steps as well as the mediators’ tasks are illustrated. The art of asking questions and “mirroring”, which the mediators must know, is described and explained. Together with the comprehensive accompanying material, the DVD is a suitable medium to introduce peer mediation at your school, too.
Youth Movement
Dancing until your feet hurt: Here, at the meeting on the Hoher Meissner near Kassel, 3,500 participants from Boy Scout associations, youth and Wandervogel groups from all over the German-speaking region have gathered. They want to celebrate, simply get to know each other and commemorate a historic anniversary.
Internet Addiction
The film consists of two parts. The first part is the 15-minute short film “In the Net”. It describes the problem of excessive Internet use in a humorous way, in particular the risk of losing touch with reality when chatting. The second part illustrates with three real persons how Internet addiction can develop and the problems encountered by those who are afflicted. The authentic statements are commented by an experienced therapist. For many pupils, the issues addressed here are related to their everyday lives. What is a “sensible” use of the Internet, where does pathological addiction start? In contrast to addiction to alcohol, nicotine or drugs, the public seems to be largely ignorant of the problem of this addiction, which is not related to any substance abuse. The film provides material for discussion in the classroom (crossdisciplinary) and can be used as a basis for the formulation of prevention strategies.