Top Swiss teacher calls for gender guidelines from politicians

Politicians should dictate how Swiss schools deal with gender-appropriate language, says Dagmar Rösler, president of the Swiss Federation of Teachers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In an interview with the online portal Blick.ch published on Sunday, Switzerland's top teacher says there needs to be a "joint commitment at a political level on how gender-appropriate language should be handled in future". Rösler said schools are currently alone in all the debates and recommendations – or non-recommendations. They find themselves in the firing line when they tackle the problem themselves, she said. Nobody really wants to disclose how schools should deal with special characters or gender-appropriate language, Rösler said. Apart from politicians, neither does the German Spelling Council, according to Rösler. + Inclusive language not a priority for the majority of Swiss Rösler does not believe that it is a problem for children and young people to learn how to ...