Schools can only require a medical certificate from parents "if there is reasonable doubt" as to whether students will miss lessons for health reasons. Pediatricians and adolescent doctors in North Rhine-Westphalia announced on Monday that they no longer wanted to issue certificates for missing students.
Blanket certificates for purely control purposes are no longer to be issued. A violation of compulsory schooling is an administrative offence and can be punished with a fine.. NRW's Minister of Education Dorothee Feller (CDU). © Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa.