Comprehensive schools have existed in Lower Saxony for 50 years - Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) can no longer imagine the school landscape without them.
"What was still considered a sensation in 1971 and triggered fierce opposition in many places has now developed into a true success story," he said on Tuesday.
The comprehensive schools in the country had brought new ideas on the way, from which the other school types also benefited.
Langenhagen - "I am very happy that the ideological rifts in school politics that have lasted for many decades have been overcome," emphasized the head of government.
The anniversary was celebrated with a ceremony in the Integrated Comprehensive School (IGS) in Langenhagen near Hanover.
According to the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, a total of eight comprehensive schools were launched after the 1971 summer vacation: IGS Garbsen, IGS Linden, IGS Langenhagen, Wilhelm Bracke Comprehensive School in Braunschweig, IGS Fürstenau and Heinrich Nordhoff Comprehensive School in Wolfsburg , KGS Osnabrück-Schinkel and KGS Neuenhaus, which was repealed in 2007.
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Education Minister Grant Hendrik Tonne (SPd) thanked all teachers, school principals and all students who had paved the way for comprehensive schools over the past decades and made it possible.
"There are now 98 public integrated and 34 cooperative comprehensive schools throughout Lower Saxony."
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