Smear theater

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Last week, a cheap show was presented to the public, which says quite a lot about our present. Starring: inexperienced teachers, cynical politicians – and the buzzword of our days: sex!

The setting was Stefa, a cozy town located on an old trade route at the top of Lake Zurich, which led to wealth that is still evident today. Goethe once stopped there shortly after the proud townspeople in the “Stäfnerhandel” rebelled against the domination of the city of Zurich. The newspaper Zürichsee-Zeitung was founded in Steff in 1845 until it moved to the lakeshore in 2016 as part of a media concentration. Instead of the editorial office, now there are elite apartments.

In this community, school social workers wanted to organize a “gender day” for “students” of the high school, already the tenth, according to the organizers, with an innocuous program.

But the theme of the asterisk reliably excites morals. Because here and there the debate brings self-proclaimed morality defenders (sorry: morality advocates) onto the stage with Calvinist zeal.

Stäfner Weltwoche journalist Christoph Mergeli instinctively set to work. Now the problem is not in his article, but in the then running uncontrollable machine of indignation. The National Behavioral Adviser of the SVP from Aargau demanded the dismissal of the school administration and did what he apparently likes to do: he posted the personal mobile number of a school employee on the Internet. After death threats and sick leave, the perpetrators were forced to stop the exercises.

The case sheds light on an elementary school in social turmoil. Heroes work in classes. They have to deal with rebellious parents who see their offspring as highly gifted and delegate their education to the general public, a generation of teenagers seduced by Tiktok, and anticipation of the zeitgeist – had Sex Day been called anything else, it would have been a fiasco. probably didn’t happen.

One can almost ask oneself who is so insane and professionally switching to the school system.

Gyeri Cavelti is the person currently making this change. After six years as editor-in-chief of SonntagsBlick, he decided to teach high school history in the future. The historian studied is a “politician animal,” as could be seen week after week in his carefully worded, sometimes razor-sharp, analyses.

He will go down in history as the journalist who brought SonntagsBlick back to life. Award-winning studies on the export of guns and IV doctors date back to his era as well as classic sensations: Albert Rösti announced his resignation as senior vice president, Gianni Infantino was denounced as a Qatari of his choice.

Cavelti deserves a big thank you for all of this. As his successor, I wish him all the best in his new position.

Incidentally, his important journalistic station was the Zürichsee-Zeitung in Steff.

Source: Blick