There’s a difference between freedom of speech and how to rule grammar.
good, let’s go for a country wide ban of this bullshit
to be fair, schools mandate the usage of it (or other gender equal language) on their teachers and (at least for university) on their students. So I am not sure if compelled speech is any better.
In fact i am quite certain compelled speech is even worse.
Best would be to leave it up to the individual to decide what they want to use.
that being said, i understand the problem with the * is anyway that the gramar is not correct, which for a school might be a problem in itself. but then again, it takes time for gramar rules to be adopted
The only positive thing here that I can find is that this might make the school websites slightly more accessible for people who use things like screen readers. Although it can’t be too complicated to implement a way to deal with such simple things like a gender star.
To me it is highly concerning though that the executive authority infringes the much desired independancy of educational institutions over such a miniscule thing. Not to speak of the way they encourage populists and extremists with this decision.
Edit: Added a period to shorten a long phrase.
The issue I have with school deciding how to write stuff is that they’re (obviously) a massive part of people’s education. So if they decide to use Schüler:innen oder Schüler*innen, it will catch on.
Teachers are a single profession that have a very specific world view that is far removed from the general population. I don’t think it’s a good thing to essentially give them the power to decide on these things.
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There’s a difference between freedom of speech and how to rule grammar.
good, let’s go for a country wide ban of this bullshit
to be fair, schools mandate the usage of it (or other gender equal language) on their teachers and (at least for university) on their students. So I am not sure if compelled speech is any better.
In fact i am quite certain compelled speech is even worse.
Best would be to leave it up to the individual to decide what they want to use.
that being said, i understand the problem with the * is anyway that the gramar is not correct, which for a school might be a problem in itself. but then again, it takes time for gramar rules to be adopted
The only positive thing here that I can find is that this might make the school websites slightly more accessible for people who use things like screen readers. Although it can’t be too complicated to implement a way to deal with such simple things like a gender star.
To me it is highly concerning though that the executive authority infringes the much desired independancy of educational institutions over such a miniscule thing. Not to speak of the way they encourage populists and extremists with this decision.
Edit: Added a period to shorten a long phrase.
The issue I have with school deciding how to write stuff is that they’re (obviously) a massive part of people’s education. So if they decide to use Schüler:innen oder Schüler*innen, it will catch on.
Teachers are a single profession that have a very specific world view that is far removed from the general population. I don’t think it’s a good thing to essentially give them the power to decide on these things.