Today, the Paul-Aldinger-Schule operates as a "special education and counseling center with a focus on intellectual development" and offers prospects to pupils who would otherwise have poorer educational opportunities. One example of this is the cooperative classes in which pupils from the Paul Aldinger School attend "normal" schools. Around 80 young people benefit from this example of successful inclusion. As head teacher, Rüdiger Hezel has made a significant contribution to establishing this model of teaching.
Speaking on behalf of District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier, Andreas Eschbach, the head of the schools department at the district office, praised Rüdiger Hezel as a head teacher with a "lively sense of innovation and vision, with a keen, keen sense of the strengths, weaknesses and needs of his pupils". A good example of his inventiveness is the creation of a school vineyard. Here the pupils, accompanied by Beilstein winegrower Bernd Gemmrich, learn how the cycles of nature work, how vines are tended, pruned and trained and how grapes are finally harvested and made into juice and wine. From an educational point of view, such sensory-based forms of learning are enormously valuable, emphasized Eschbach. This is why District Administrator Dietmar Allgaier "took on the sponsorship of this innovative project with great pleasure and enthusiasm", said Andreas Eschbach.
