A school in Germany assigned students as young as 13 to design an "inclusive brothel" as a class project — and the headmistress defended it as a teaching tool. The assignment, titled "Puff für alle" — which translates to "Brothel for All" — was part of a "Sexual Education of Diversity" module at the Cardinal von Galen Gymnasium in Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia.
In America, we have school board wars over whether kids should read "To Kill a Mockingbird." In Germany, they're handing 13-year-olds blueprints for hooker hotels. Progress!
Students aged 13 to 15 were reportedly asked to plan out accessibility features and services for a fictional sex work establishment. Because apparently algebra and world history weren't edgy enough for the curriculum planners in North Rhine-Westphalia. The assignment was first reported by Steve Watson at Modernity.news and picked up by ZeroHedge.
Headmistress Christina Diehr defended the assignment, claiming it was "deliberately designed to be provocative in order to stimulate discussion." She added that the module "addresses the heavy use of social media channels by children and young people." How designing a brothel addresses social media use is a logical leap that even Olympic gymnasts couldn't land.
One older student told German outlet WDR that "people should be questioning the acceptance surrounding the topic of sex work," noting that "95 percent of all sex workers being women." So the school's defense is that having children architect a whorehouse was actually a feminist exercise. Got it.
This is what happens when "progressive education" goes completely off the rails. We're not talking about a rogue teacher going off-script during third period. This was a structured module — approved, planned, and delivered to minors as part of their formal schooling.
And it's not like Germany's schools are exactly swimming in credibility right now. Reports from the country have highlighted other disturbing incidents, including an 18-year-old Afghan asylum seeker intern at the Brehm School in Düsseldorf, a 35-year-old Syrian intern placed in a Neubrandenburg kindergarten, and one school logging 118 crimes in a single year.
The school has since confirmed the assignment will not be re-issued and that "alternative lessons" are being planned. Translation: they got caught, the internet went nuclear, and now they're in damage-control mode.
Here's the bottom line. When your idea of educating teenagers involves asking them to design a sex work establishment — and your defense is that it was "deliberately provocative" — you've lost the plot entirely. The Cardinal von Galen Gymnasium owes every parent in Kevelaer a very long apology. And maybe a refund.