The fact that they stayed away from the class for climate protection demonstrations now has consequences for three Bavarian schoolchildren: Those who were absent without excuse, according to the school management, should not take part in the excursion that selected tenth graders of the high school wanted to undertake in January.
This decision by the school management from Traunstein in Upper Bavaria is causing some excitement. Among others, the "Passauer Neue Presse" and the Bavarian radio reported about it.
It was about one or two missed school hours at the end of November, tweeted the Traunstein local group of the climate protection movement. For this reason, two members of the organizational team and another activist were "prohibited" from participating in the four-day trip to Berlin organized by the Bavarian State Center for Political Education earlier this year.
+++ NEWS +++
Because they had one or two school hours on November 29th. were missing to go to the #FridaysForFuture climate strike, two students of our organizational team and another activist are now prohibited from participating in a four-day trip to Berlin (28 school hours).
The school administration rejects this presentation. The pupils were not "excluded" from the trip, but simply "not selected for it", the deputy headmaster Markus Gnad told SPIEGEL.
Only 30 out of a total of 145 tenth-graders from the school could join, around 60 would have applied. One of the criteria for the selection that the school administration made was whether the candidates had followed the school rules. The students had been informed beforehand.
"Of course we support when students are politically involved," said Gnad. But young people who were committed and still obeyed the rules would have applied for the trip. It would have been unfair to you to disregard this criterion.
The parent council chairman Sebastian Ring told the dpa news agency that the matter had been discussed with all school committees. "We saw no need for action. We found the procedure to be flawless."
In the local group Traunstein from "Fridays for Future", however, one is outraged. The three students had already been selected and subsequently deleted from the list, it says on Twitter.
Gnad, on the other hand, believes that all interested parties should have obtained the parents' consent in advance to cover the excursion costs in the three-digit range. Some would have misinterpreted this as a promise.