Carl Bolle School: After reviewing files, MPs speak of “supervision and management failure”

Krüger also emphasized that the senator's role remains unclear. He expressed skepticism as to whether Günther-Wünsch had presented her role transparently enough. "Her name barely appears in the files," he said, announcing further investigations, particularly into "when she knew about what" and "where she intervened." Marcel Hopp of the SPD expressed similar views. "The perception that there is a problem with oversight and management has intensified," he explained after reviewing the files. Hopp called for a functioning complaints and monitoring system to prevent such cases in the future.

CDU MP Sandra Khalatbari described the access to the files as "good, important, and right." She praised the senator's openness and emphasized that the case was complex and needed to be addressed objectively. The existing structures needed to be reviewed, and all those involved needed better training. It was important to take both the students' protection needs and the teachers' rights and concerns seriously.

Late Monday afternoon, the Education Senator also spoke and received the waiting journalists in her office. It was the first statement she made to the press in the Inácio-Stech case. To date, she has not spoken to him.

It has become clear, said Günther-Wünsch, that the case cannot be resolved by simply assigning blame. She announced structural reforms, saying: "We will revise the complaint structures." In the future, there will be a central office to manage and monitor cases of bullying and discrimination. The training of school inspectors will also be reformed, "because in the future, school inspectors must be more successful in supporting school management."

The senator declined to allow press inquiries. But many questions remain. Not only about her role and that of the school's inspectorate, but also about the school administration's handling of the case. The vice principal reported Inácio-Stech last year after a colleague claimed to have observed him sitting too close to students. The investigation was discontinued shortly after a student allegedly affected contradicted the accounts.

Later, in his letter to the senator, Inácio-Stech's lawyer raised the suspicion that her colleague had consumed drugs during school hours. He supported his suspicions with several affidavits from other teachers. It is unknown whether the allegations were investigated internally. In response to a request from the Berliner Zeitung, the education administration simply stated that it does not comment on individual personnel cases.

However, after reviewing the files, it was AfD representative Tommy Tabor, of all people, who addressed this fact. Until now, the AfD parliamentary group had remained conspicuously silent on the case. Now, Tabor said in a written statement: The colleague criticized by Inácio-Stech for alleged drug use had been completely exonerated by a negative drug test. A spokesperson for the education administration left open whether and when such a test had been conducted. In his statement, Tabor defended the school administration, saying that it had "behaved extremely professionally." However, he criticized Inácio-Stech. "Forced hugs and descriptions of one's own sex life, which students report, represent a violation of boundaries," Tabor said. Students must be protected from such behavior. Tabor is apparently referring to a report that the school's vice principal had prepared after a conversation with a sixth-grader and handed over to the police. The student is quoted as saying that Inácio-Stech hugged him even though he didn't want to. What the MPs were unable to determine during their review of the files due to redactions is that the boy is one of those who have deliberately bullied Inácio-Stech for years.

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