{"id":721525,"date":"2026-06-23T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:52:09","slug":"germany-news-merz-hails-pension-reform-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721525\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany news: Merz hails pension reform proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>06\/23\/2026June 23, 2026Almost half of teachers stressed by pupils&#8217; behavior \u2014 School Barometer<\/p>\n<p>Almost every second teacher in Germany (46%) considers that pupils&#8217; behavior is the biggest source of stress in the profession, according to a <a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bosch-stiftung.de\/en\/project\/german-school-barometer\/teachers\" title=\"External link \u2014 School Barometer\u00a0survey\">School Barometer\u00a0survey<\/a> issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That is an increase of more than 10 percentage points over 2024, when just 35% of teachers said pupils&#8217; conduct was their main challenge.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey carried out for\u00a0the Robert Bosch Foundation, it is not just a lack of discipline that causes problems for teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers who responded to the survey said that a quarter of pupils had trouble working in a group, while 13% found it difficult to motivate themselves to learn.<\/p>\n<p>Many teachers said that they were having to teach pupils more than just specialized knowledge, saying that empathy, self-organization and critical thinking also needed cultivating among pupils.<\/p>\n<p>Four out of five teachers (82%) said they would like to receive extra training in these fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Almost every second respondent said more had to be done to educate pupils about democracy, with a similar number wanting more training in the use of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>However, 83% ranked their job satisfaction as high. More than every fourth teacher said, however, that they would give up the job if there was an acceptable alternative.<\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bosch-stiftung.de\/en\/storys\/psychological-stress-among-students-rise-again\" title=\"External link \u2014 School Barometer survey of pupils\">School Barometer survey of pupils<\/a> published last week\u00a0showed that every fourth pupil in Germany felt they had a poor quality of life, while around the same proportion displayed psychological difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"06\/23\/2026June 23, 2026Almost half of teachers stressed by pupils&#8217; behavior \u2014 School Barometer Almost every second teacher in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-721525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}