For more than ten years, support for pupils in need of support in starting their careers at secondary schools has been a successful model.
Right now this will finally end up here.
For more than ten years, the
intensive accompaniment and support in starting a career for pupils in need of support at
secondary
schools in Bavaria
has been a successful model.
But now it should be over because there is no more money to finance the share of the Free State of Bavaria.
The application to continue the measure did not receive the required majority in the budget committee of the Bavarian state parliament.
GRÜNE, FDP and SPD voted in favor of the motion.
The CSU and also the FREIEN WÄHLER were against the continuation of this successful and important promotion.
No professional support at secondary schools: Sudden stop despite proven success
This means that young people at all Bavarian middle schools will no longer receive sufficient individual support and encouragement from the coming school year.
The schools are being left alone with the situation, even though the number of students in middle school is increasing every year, and the shortage of teachers is becoming more serious.
Many parents, teachers and students are stunned by this decision.
Even the Bavarian Crafts Day has expressed its regret at the end of career entry support in a press release.
The fact that more than 3,500 young people in Bavaria have benefited from it shows that this measure is still necessary.
Against the background of the past pandemic years, in which educationally weak young people in particular were disadvantaged, the stop to career start support infuriates those affected.
But first resistance germinates.
In Unterschleißheim, the parents' council and committed parents have come together in the vicinity of the middle school and started an information campaign.
No professional support at secondary schools: people from Unterschleißheim protest
With targeted reports about the funding stop in the social networks, in the press and with direct letters to the responsible politicians in the Bavarian state parliament, public pressure should be increased to the point that a rethinking of politics takes place.
The further financing of career entry support at Bavarian secondary schools must be secured, and the measure must be firmly anchored in the state budget.
The parents' council of the Unterschleißheim middle school has also started a petition on the Internet, in which everyone can contribute to the continuation of career entry support by signing it at https://chng.it/5t99PLnb.
At the middle school in Unterschleißheim, more than 100 students have been successfully supported since the start of their careers.
Among other things, learning for the school-leaving certificate in holiday courses, selecting, looking for and finding an apprenticeship position, writing application letters and preparing for job interviews, with half-yearly supervision right into the apprenticeship until the end of the probationary period