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Middle school Waldram: Parents call for class - information evening shows ditches

2022-07-06T12:35:30.625Z


Middle school Waldram: Parents call for class - information evening shows ditches Created: 06/07/2022, 14:23 By: Dominik Stallein 35 visitors, no solution: The future of the fifth graders in Waldram is being fought hard. An agreement was not in sight even at an information evening. © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss Waldram is fighting to stay up: There will be no fifth grade at the middle school in Sept


Middle school Waldram: Parents call for class - information evening shows ditches

Created: 06/07/2022, 14:23

By: Dominik Stallein

35 visitors, no solution: The future of the fifth graders in Waldram is being fought hard.

An agreement was not in sight even at an information evening.

© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

Waldram is fighting to stay up: There will be no fifth grade at the middle school in September.

This was hotly debated at an information evening.

Wolfratshausen/Waldram - It's about the well-being and optimal support of the children.

The city uses this argument to explain the move of the future fifth graders from Waldram to Wolfratshausen.

The parents, who are mobilizing with 1200 signatures, on the other hand, see that as a threat.

An information event in the auditorium of the Waldram school on Monday evening showed how hardened the fronts are.

Future of the middle school: Waldramer parents call for class - information evening shows ditches

It was not a frontal lesson that the approximately 35 visitors - including parents, city councilors and Münsing's mayor Michael Grasl - followed on Monday evening.

Discussions repeatedly arose about points addressed by school advisor Fritz Meixner and school association coordinator and head of the school at Hammerschmiedweg, Frank Schwesig, in their presentations.

It came as no surprise that this would turn out this way.

Waldram's headmaster, Josef Märkl, said in greeting to the parents: "Go home with the feeling that you've gotten rid of everything that's on your mind." Most of them followed this advice.

Middle school Waldram: Mayor Heilinglechner clarifies - too few fifth graders for two-track Hammerschmiedweg

Mayor Klaus Heilinglechner explained the decision: Because there are not enough fifth graders registered for three middle school classes in the Wolfratshausen urban area, the children from the Waldram school district should move to Hammerschmiedweg.

Both fifth grades are to be formed there because there would not be enough teaching hours available to equip two single-track middle schools.

This problem, as Frank Schwesig explained, is not blatant in the first two years of middle school: in the fifth and sixth grades, only five additional teaching hours are required, which have to be deducted from other offers or schools.

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From the seventh grade, however, this number increases to 37 hours per week.

A mother chimed in: "So we're talking about five hours in the coming school year.

Nobody can predict what will happen in the future.” Schwesig agreed that there was no 100 percent certainty, “but the two classes will eventually arrive in the upper years”.

One father expressed doubts that the cohort in question would remain so small in the long term.

Fritz Meixner, school officer for the city of Wolfratshausen said: "The desire to support the children unites us." © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

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You have to know that the number of registrations for middle school has plummeted this year - probably because the parents' wishes were taken more into account.

However, because the boys and girls have learning gaps due to the corona pandemic, the father expects that some secondary school children will be sent back to middle school.

"How do you want to solve that?" he asked Schwesig.

He pointed out that there are currently around 50 registrations for the fifth grade – about the same number from both school districts.

A third class could only be set up for children with 61 or more children.

He has "never experienced" a year in which a double-digit number of students was deferred - and considers it unlikely.

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Heilinglechner submitted a compromise proposal to the school authorities, according to which the Waldramers would remain at their usual location until they entered the seventh grade and only then move – and received a rejection.

"Such a model is no longer possible." From the seventh grade, middle school students take either music and art, and from the eighth grade they also take another of three so-called elective subjects.

At two single-track middle schools - Schwesig emphasized - it was not possible to offer all subjects because there were neither enough teachers nor enough students available.

One mother didn't want to leave it that way: "If a certain course doesn't come about at a school location, you can always change schools," she said.

Then the children would be older "and it would be their free decision".

Schwesig did not think that changing schools in the middle of middle school would be expedient.

Construction work in Wolfratshausen: Waldramer want to stay in a "healthy school".

What causes a lack of understanding among the parents is the move to a location where extensive construction work is pending.

As reported, the expansion and renovation of the elementary and middle school in Wolfratshausen is to begin next year.

Fritz Meixner emphasized that when planning the construction site, care was taken to ensure that no work was taking place in a building that was also being used for teaching.

The Waldramer and Münsinger parents still fear restrictions, especially due to the noise.

Waldram, on the other hand, is, according to one father, “a healthy school”.

Elisabeth Brustmann, one of the initiators of the signature campaign to keep the fifth grade in Waldram, followed up.

She wanted to know if all the specialist rooms will be available during construction.

Schwesig: "It will be a difficult phase, but we will of course organize it so that all children receive their specialist lessons." The question of why the fifth graders should move if this becomes difficult echoed through the auditorium again.

Parents' initiative to preserve fifth grade in Waldram has indicated a citizen's application

At times the discussion went in circles.

Really new arguments were not discussed on Monday evening.

How the school issue will continue is unclear.

There will be no solution that everyone is happy with, as Monday evening showed.

City hall chief Heilinglechner explained that the current decision of the technical committee is valid.

In May - after enrollment for the coming school year - the committee voted to move to Wolfratshausen.

However, the citizens' meeting is coming up soon, and some Waldramer parents have already indicated that they will submit an application - and force the city council to sit in detention: "If that happens, we have to deal with the issue again", even if time is short, and the school authority wanted clarity.

You can read all the news from Wolfratshausen here.

Meixner emphasized that all the protagonists who were involved in the committee's decision had long been "dedicated to the middle school".

In Wolfratshausen and Waldram there would be many voluntary offers that are financed by the city.

Meixner: “We all want the best for our high school students.

Opinions differ as to what is best.

But the desire to support the children unites us.”

Source: merkur

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