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The Trickster! Sven Schulze (CDU Minister-President) and his disinformation about teacher numbers: Gross figures polished up, net figures concealedSven Schulze, CDU lead candidate and Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, proudly posted on Facebook on August 17, 2026: “This year alone, we have already hired 1,230 new teachers.” 
Sounds like a determined government, a fresh start, a case of “problem identified and solved.” That is the message: The CDU delivers, schools are getting better, and the future is secure. In reality, this is pure disinformation and manipulationAccording to figures from the Ministry of Education, around 1,223 teachers had been newly hired by mid-August 2026. At the same time, 1,059 left the teaching profession. It is not known how many more teachers will leave by the end of the year. So far, the net increase is only around 164 additional teachers. Not 1,230. But 164. In a state with around 1,100 schools and approximately 259,000 students.Schulze mentions only the incoming teachers and systematically leaves the departures out of the picture. This is not transparent information; it is deliberate omission designed to manufacture a success story that does not actually exist. Apparently, mathematical word problems were neither the Minister-President’s strength nor that of his team. Because anyone who cannot—or does not want to—distinguish between gross and net figures, and presents citizens with only the flattering side of the calculation, either has a problem with basic subtraction—or has a very keen sense of which number will play better during an election campaign. 1,230 sounds like a breakthrough. 164 sounds like a laborious crawl. So 1,230 is trumpeted to the world, while the rest is concealed. This is not an educational policy balance sheet; it is election-campaign arithmetic at its cheapest. The teacher shortage remains – despite the manipulationSaxony-Anhalt continues to suffer from a structural shortage of teachers. The level of teaching provision is around 93–94 percent, far short of the government’s self-imposed target of 103 percent. Classes are being canceled, lateral-entry teachers are shouldering an increasing share of the burden, and older teachers are being asked to work longer or take on more hours voluntarily. The current net increase of around 164 teachers is welcome because it is positive for the first time in quite a while. But it by no means ends the shortage. Anyone who pretends that the problem has largely been solved by the gross figure of 1,230 is deliberately misleading the public.Student numbers: Relief is coming – just not in time for the election campaignDemographic trends will help in the long term. At present, around 259,000 children and young people attend schools in Saxony-Anhalt. A decline is expected in the coming years, particularly from around 2030 onward. Fewer students ultimately mean less demand for teachers. The ministry itself expects the shortage to ease noticeably by around 2030. For the children who are attending school now, and for the teachers who are struggling under the current workload, that relief will come too late. The current shortage is real—and the net increase of 164 teachers is nowhere near enough to eliminate it.Election campaigning and disinformation instead of the truthSchulze’s post is not a blunder. It is calculated manipulation. Ahead of the state election, the CDU wants to present itself as a political force in education that gets things done. So the gross figure is put front and center, departures are ignored, and the impression is created that the situation is under control. Anyone who casually mixes up gross and net figures like this might want to work on their own mathematical fundamentals before telling citizens how well the schools are doing.Good education policy needs honest figures—gross and net, hires and departures, current staffing levels and realistic forecasts. Anyone who shows only the flattering side of the statistics while concealing the rest is treating voters like students whose difficult questions have been removed from the test. Citizens deserve better information than this crude manipulation. The Facebook post: School is starting again for 260,000 children and young people in Saxony-Anhalt.
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