Yes. We demand that the young generation become more political, take more interest in current events, and get involved, but when they do exactly that (and only say at the demos what many of us think too), we react like this: > A spokesman for the Bavarian Ministry of Education criticized the unexcused absence from class, but said that harsh sanctions such as reprimands should not be imposed. However, there should be pedagogical consequences, such as discussions in class or making up missed lessons. Saarland's Education Minister Jürgen Schreier (CDU), on the other hand, demanded that the protesting students have the class absence entered in their report card as "unexcused absence." The cited education ministries certainly have a very strange idea of a more political youth. Are politically interested young people only supposed to be politically interested and engaged outside of school? It reminds me fatally of the button bans we had at school back then. Political expression of opinion has no place in the school building was the attitude of the school administration back then. An attitude that still seems strange to me today, especially considering that many church-affiliated schools have crosses hanging in classrooms ... At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft there is the original article.