As of: January 25, 2024, 6:00 p.m
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In the future, only open, full-day lessons will be offered at the Staufer primary school in Schongau.
This means that the children are looked after externally in the afternoon.
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In order to get the most accurate forecast possible of what space requirements will arise in Schongau as a result of the right to full-day care from 2026, the city is correcting its factor for population development significantly upwards.
Reason: The city is growing much faster than expected.
The elementary school is also building.
Schongau - In May of last year, the Schongau city council decided to commission an external institute to plan school needs and examine the likely development of day care.
The background is the legal right to all-day care for children of primary school age and above, which will be gradually introduced from the 2026 school year.
First graders will be entitled to full-day care starting in the 2026/2027 school year
Starting with the first graders in the 2026/2027 school year up to the fourth graders, who can then take advantage of full-day care in 2029/2030, all children from the age of one will have the legal right to early childhood support.
The Schongau committee came to the conclusion: It is better to spend a little more money in advance for the investigation than to plan completely in the dark.
But how to assess population development in the long term?
This was most recently examined for the creation of the integrated urban development concept (ISEK).
As city architect Sebastian Dietrich explained, a medium scenario was previously expected, a population increase of 0.24 percent.
Schongau's population is growing much faster than expected
But that is no longer enough; the Schongau population has grown significantly faster than expected.
Dietrich said that many refugees arrived in Schongau, especially in 2015/2016 and again in 2021/2022.
This curve has currently flattened somewhat.
“But in fact we had one percent growth per year.”
In order to be able to react accordingly with the land-use planning, Dietrich suggested using a higher factor.
It is impossible to know how the numbers of refugees will develop.
“But maybe it also makes sense to drive moderately on sight,” says Dietrich, after all that also has consequences.
He suggested continuing with population growth of 0.42 percent per year.
Increase to 0.42 percent growth “too conservative”
Alexander Majaru (SPD) himself found this assumption “too conservative”: one no longer only has to assume wars, global warming will continue to increase, and there will also be people who will have to flee from islands to the mainland.
Markus Keller (Greens) also calculated that two thirds of Schongau's new residents are refugees.
“It is becoming increasingly difficult for schools, and also for land use planning.”
We need fewer single-family homes and more multi-story apartment buildings.
“I think the forecast for ten years or longer is too speculative.”
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Improvements need to be made, particularly in schools and kindergartens
“It’s not going in a peaceful direction,” Gregor Schuppe was certain.
The ALS city council then questioned what effects it would have if the figures for the needs analysis were to be too high.
This has a direct impact, particularly on schools and kindergartens, says Dietrich.
“If we oversteer, we may create more space than we need.”
More space, especially in schools, is always needed, Schuppe countered and advocated for a higher adjustment of the growth forecast, which was also emphasized by the new CSU city councilor Florian Jocher: “Nobody has ever built anything too big.” However, you have to be able to afford it said Stephan Hild (UWV).
He also doubted that there would be enough staff for schools and kindergartens in the future.
“That’s why the whole thing will fail.
Once you have built it, it cannot be filled with life,” says Hild.
Schuppe emphasized once again that full-day care is a legal right.
“The option of failure doesn’t exist.”
The city is now adjusting its forecast to 0.75 percent annual growth
Ultimately, the city is now significantly adjusting its forecast – from 0.24 percent annual growth to 0.75 percent.
The commissioned Sachs Institute will revise the figures, but specific refugee disasters such as the current war in Ukraine will not be shown.
19 city councilors voted in favor, but the UWV was not convinced.
The committee unanimously followed the decision of the Staufer primary school to switch to open all-day operation (see text above) - subject to the approval of the government of Upper Bavaria.
The offer of the tied all-day class was funded when the school was newly built; the funding commitment is valid for 25 years.
The primary school is also preparing and switching to open all-day lessons
In the future, open instead of restricted all-day lessons will take place at the Staufer primary school.
The school management had decided this, and the parents' council had also agreed to it, as ALS city councilor Gregor Schuppe, himself a member of the school management, explained at the city council meeting.
It turned out that the fixed full day had very rigid requirements.
Not all parents need care for their child until 4 p.m. every day.
The school is also much more flexible when it is open all day and the students can be better distributed across the classes.
The open all-day offers regular lessons, ideally an external provider takes over in the Köhlerstadel and also offers flexible offers from sports to music lessons.
“Ideally, the child goes home at 4 p.m. and has already completed their leisure activities,” says Schuppe.
In the future, all-day care will run independently of the holidays and will only be closed for a few days.
“Finding staff will be difficult, but if we start now, we have a chance.”
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