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The last line of defense against the AfD: people with disabilities - labeled a Nazi by Kay Franke (former district council member / The Left)Fear is spreading among the fighters for this “our democracy”. The AfD is slowly but steadily gaining in polls. And therefore, fear is increasingly being used. 
I was also made aware via Facebook by the fighters for the government narrative of a study claiming that the AfD is a danger to people with disabilities. The message is basically: look at what the AfD also plans to do to your daughter. Inclusion is to be abolished. And then it is not far from what the Nazis did to people with disabilities. The goal was obvious: to make me afraid.I had an AI go through the document and posted the result as a reply. That prompted Kay Franke (former member of the district council of the Burgenlandkreis and member of the party Die Linke) to step in. He responded very briefly and called me a Nazi. He has done this before in the past as well. He did not explain how he reached that conclusion.As the father of a daughter with a disability, I had to gain a lot of experience with inclusion. Or rather: exclusion. I would have gladly done without it. But these experiences do not result in fear of the AfD. Because inclusion is not wanted under CDU, SPD, Greens, and FDP. I also received exactly zero support from The Left in my struggle against social authorities, schools, and the state education authority. The education office of the Burgenlandkreis was also anything but helpful. They all work together against people with disabilities when those people do not conform to what the authorities want. Inclusion in schoolsI can understand the AfD’s position when it comes to the inclusion of children with intellectual disabilities and behavioral issues. This can certainly be a burden for other students—especially when staff is lacking. As far as I understand the AfD’s statements so far, it is not about completely excluding children with disabilities from mainstream schools, but rather those who make classroom management difficult. Children with physical disabilities would not be affected. That would therefore not have affected my daughter.Personally, I would favor inclusive classes in mainstream schools. With declining student numbers, there should be no shortage of classrooms. Students with certain limitations could thus be taught in regular schools rather than being pushed into special schools. Perhaps there are individual subjects where joint instruction is possible. In other subjects, things would be more individualized. But the distances would be shorter. Switching participation in individual subjects would not require complicated applications to the state education authority. Special schools would no longer be necessary, and mainstream students would have contact with children with disabilities. Maybe that is an idea. The idea of abolishing compulsory school attendance or compulsory presence in school buildings is, in my view, to be welcomed. During the COVID-19 pandemic in particular, there were many initiatives to establish free schools and learning spaces. However, the financial barriers are so high that most of these initiatives are doomed to fail. If compulsory school building attendance is removed, this would mean less pressure on parents of a child with a disability, since there would be no stress about the child absolutely having to be present in a school building. However, based on my experience, I have to say that trying to push children with disabilities who later require assistance or even have a reduced life expectancy through the school system is quite pointless. Yes, pointless. It is enough if these children can read, write, and do arithmetic in order to manage everyday life. Because more than that is not expected of them later anyway. Further education can be tailored individually according to interests. They do not really have a chance on the job market anyway. And even if they earn some money, they will ultimately have to spend it on the assistance they need. A life at social welfare level is predetermined for these children. So why subject them to compulsory schooling until age twelve? After school, nobody cares anyway what becomes of these people. If the disability or illness also entails a reduced life expectancy, it is even more pointless to waste the little lifetime in school. Instead, parents should try to spend the time with their children as well as possible and as positively as possible despite the many limitations and illness-related problems. Inclusion and educational opportunities do not interest the social authorities!A small “anecdote” from my experience: the laptop that my daughter received in primary school through the health insurance fund because writing by hand was very exhausting developed an irreparable defect after a few years. We organized a new prescription and submitted it to the health insurance fund. However, the legal situation had changed. The health insurance was no longer responsible and forwarded the prescription, which thus became an application, to the social welfare office of the Burgenlandkreis. The social welfare office rejected the application on the grounds that it had been forwarded too late by the health insurance to the social office. The law stipulated that an institution such as the health insurance should check within 14 days whether it is responsible. If it is not responsible, it should forward it to the responsible body. However, this forwarding does not have to occur within 14 days. The social welfare office of the Burgenlandkreis under the leadership of the much-loved district administrator Götz Ulrich (CDU) was not interested in that. We filed an objection. The social welfare office stuck to its position and forwarded the objection to the social agency of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle. It has not been processed to this day. The fact that our daughter could no longer properly participate in class did not interest anyone. Educational success? Completely irrelevant. Equal opportunities? Uninteresting! School qualification? Irrelevant! Since legal proceedings would have taken years, we scraped together the necessary euros to finance a new laptop. Since the end of schooling, nobody cares what became of our daughter. Out of sight, out of mind.Would this interest a Kay Franke? I don’t think so. To him, I am a Nazi. More examples, anyone?In the livestream of the AfD family festival in Schönebeck a few weeks ago, you can learn how people with disabilities are treated in Saxony-Anhalt. A wheelchair user has been fighting for his pension for two years. The case has been in social court for a year because the pension first has to be enforced through legal action. You see the mutual buck-passing of responsibilities among authorities. Without help from his parents, the man could not survive. This apparently plays no role for the authorities. A disability parking permit for disabled parking spaces exists only for Saxony-Anhalt and only for half a year. It is not valid in other federal states.The video starts at the point with the man in the wheelchair: The young man had the wish to take a photo with Ulrich Siegmund. This “evil AfD member” fulfilled that wish. So this must be the inhumanity everyone is being warned about. If people with disabilities seek help from the AfD because other parties do not help, this should actually lead to massive self-reflection, especially among The Left. Am I afraid of an AfD government?No. I do not assume that things will actually get worse for children or adults with disabilities. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities exists. It was ratified in 2009 and is therefore binding law. Yes, okay, neither the current government nor the established parties nor the administration care about that. In schools, inclusion is still generally not something people are enthusiastic about. A few weeks ago, I received a letter from a mother who was fighting so that her son, who had been diagnosed with a very serious illness, could at least attend classes at the “inclusive primary school” in Hohenmölsen for the few years he had left, in order to have contact with other children. When I read that, memories came back for me as well. The head of the primary school, whom I consider a complete miscast, was—as in our case back in 2012—very keen on exclusion. Nevertheless, she remains in her position as head. The assumption is therefore that she is doing her job exactly as desired. It just has little to do with inclusion.So what is supposed to get worse? Where are you, “fighters for human rights”And you, who are trying to use people with disabilities as the last line of defense against the AfD: where are you fighting for people with disabilities against current government and regional policies? Where are you fighting for the right to self-determination for people with disabilities? Where are you fighting to abolish this tedious subsidiarity that forces people with disabilities into a life at welfare level?Kay Franke: where are your questions in the district council? Where are your demands to the district administrator to instruct the social welfare office not to treat people with disabilities as a cost factor? Where are your demands that the social welfare office must guarantee the right to self-determination without conditions? I, whom you consider a Nazi, have fought for exactly that for many years. I just did not succeed because even The Left provided no support. Oh, sorry, I forgot: Kay Franke told me that I should address him formally as “Sie”, because he is not on a first-name basis with Nazis. That is important to Kay Franke. You, the Left, the Greens—you certainly have numerous cases on your desks where the “socially indifferent office” of the Burgenlandkreis demonstrates how little they care about people with disabilities. But what do you do? Do you bring this to the public? Do you challenge the CDU district administrator on it? Or is his patronage of the Christopher Street Day more important to you? Human rights and the right to self-determination do not consist of having your gender entered into your ID and being able to be visible with rainbow flags. Human rights include not having to slowly starve at arm’s length through authorities and institutions despite having a legal entitlement to benefits. How about it, Kay Franke? The next district council meeting is surely coming. Will you—sorry—will you confront the district administrator and ask uncomfortable questions about why inclusion and the treatment of people with disabilities in Burgenlandkreis are still so inhumane after 17 years of the UN Disability Rights Convention? Or will you leave that to those you call Nazis? Also interesting is this post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/764265077755677/permalink/2117078005807704/. Much of what is being accused of the AfD there is common practice under CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP, and The Left. Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | |
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