Serbia or Kosovo? Palestinians or Israel? Ukraine or Russia? Her students ask these and similar questions whenever there’s a fire somewhere in the world, says a high school teacher. She has worked in various secondary and secondary schools in Vienna for over 25 years. During the Yugoslav wars, when she was a young teacher, she was struck by the “horrible stories of her students”. Meanwhile, numerous other international conflicts have passed into Austria’s classroom. “As a teacher you feel helpless, children and their parents have very bad things inside them.” In recent years, aggressiveness and “black and white thinking” have increased, says the secondary school teacher.
