A 6th grade is to be dropped at the Tölzer Südschule: some students are therefore to go to the middle school in Gaißach.
That upsets a father.
Bad Tölz – Tommy Pohl's son has just come from elementary school to the fifth grade at the Tölzer Südschule.
For the new school year, the eleven-year-old is supposed to change again and attend the Gaißacher middle school in the future.
The reason: the class size is too small.
Father Tommy Pohl does not agree at all with this.
That's why he turned to the Tölzer Kurier.
Father speaks of a "bottomless cheek"
"This is a bottomless cheek from the Isarwinkel middle school network," he thinks.
"The children only changed schools after primary school and are now to be torn from their school network again." Pohl does not share the reason given by those responsible for the resettlement - the insufficient number of classes.
On the contrary: “The class size is perfect for attentive teaching.
We are very satisfied with the Südschule and would like to stay there.”
The requirement is to form even classes
As further counter-arguments, Pohl cites the cost of the train tickets that would be necessary for the journey to Gaißach, the ecological footprint of the train journey and the unhealthy, even earlier getting up.
"You shouldn't treat children like that," he says.
When asked by the Tölzer Kurier, Petra Burkhardt, the technical manager of the state education authority in the district, explains why the students are being relocated from Tölz to Gaißach.
"There is a requirement to form even classes within the middle school network," she says.
“At the beginning of the school year, both fifth graders at the Südschule were allowed to start.
But now there are fewer students, for example due to people moving away.” That is why there will only be a sixth grade in the coming school year.
Solutions must be sought within the network
Actually, says Burkhardt, about 30 students make up a class.
However, if more than 50 percent of the students in a grade have an immigrant background, the divider comes into play earlier, namely at 25. "A new class is then formed for the 26th student," explains the school director.
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Because the classes at the Südschule have shrunk, this benchmark is only just exceeded.
"Then solutions have to be found in the network," says Burkhardt.
In concrete terms, it looks like some students should attend the Gaißach middle school from the coming school year.
It is not finally clear which students have to change
According to the director of the school board, the current state of affairs is that letters have been sent to parents informing them that they are looking for amicable solutions.
According to Burkhardt, it is currently not certain whether Tommy Pohl's son really has to move to the Gaißacher middle school.
However, Pohl reports that the principal of the Südschule had already informed him that his son had to change.
According to Burkhardt, when selecting the students who are to move to Gaißach, consideration is also given to how far away the children live from the train station.
"Such a procedure is quite common," she explains the planned procedure.
"Change is not nice, but it is reasonable."
Overall, the number of students in secondary schools is decreasing
There is also a case where it works the other way round: In Gaißach, for example, only seven students are still in the ninth grade.
A few of them have to go to Tölz, a few to Lenggries.
"That's the idea of the middle school association, to keep the small schools alive," explains Burkhardt.
"Because the number of pupils in secondary schools is decreasing." And that only works by rearranging individual classes.
School director: "The resettlement will take place"
Teachers are not saved by this procedure.
Burkhardt explains: “The teaching hours that the district receives from the ministry are calculated based on the number of students.
And not after classes.”
The director of the school board makes it clear: “The resettlement will take place.
But it is not yet clear whether someone will have to go to Gaißach against their will.”
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