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Gabriele Hartl wants to build the private high school in Dorfen.
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The application has already been submitted to the Ministry of Culture, and the school founders are optimistic: a private high school with a business focus is to start in the Meindl area in Dorfen this year.
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– The school landscape in the Erding district is to expand to include a private economics high school in Dorfen.
The focus is on “highly talented underachievers”.
“Children who have a lot on their minds, who are creative, but think carefully about what they want to achieve,” explains Gabriele Hartl, managing director of the OKO Private School.
She submitted the application to the Ministry of Culture last week.
Hartl is optimistic that approval will be available for the start of the 2024/25 school year.
The Hartl family has already built such a high school in Hamburg.
100 students are currently being taught there.
Since 2020, the experienced learning therapist has been working from the company headquarters in Dietramszell to establish another location.
“Since I've been in Bavaria, I've been involved with the Ministry of Culture.
In a sense, we went in there together,” reports the school founder.
She came to the Meindl site in Dorfen through personal contacts with entrepreneur Robert Decker, the owner of the industrial wasteland on which a completely new urban district is to be built.
It is a private school with tuition fees.
When asked, the managing director explains that this will amount to 550 euros per month.
“But we also offer 15 percent free places or partial free places.” This depends on the parents’ income situation.
However, these modalities have “not yet been approved by the Ministry of Culture”.
The OKO Private School Talent-Schule gGmbH (OPS) is planning an all-day school based on its Hamburg concept.
The students are taught in small learning groups across all grades.
There should be 35 children in two classes at the start.
“We will have mixed-age classes from the start,” says Hartl, with fifth and sixth graders as well as seventh and eighth graders together.
Class sizes of a maximum of 20 students are planned.
A team of consultants, teachers and psychologists will be put together for this purpose.
Initially it will have 3.5 full-time positions.
For this purpose, the OPS has already rented two rooms in the academy building on the Meindl site.
In the next step, the high school will move into the entire first floor, said Hartl.
A civil service academy and a Montessori kindergarten are already housed there, whose operator “Learning with Joy” is also working on establishing a Montessori school.
“From our experience, parents whose children are not so happy at school will feel addressed,” says Hartl about her work in Hamburg.
A circle of interested families has already formed in Bavaria.
Others will get their first insights at today's information evening.
The goal at OPS – like at a state school – will be the Abitur.
Based on the Bavarian curriculum, but guided by the term “de-schooling”, not only the classic school material is taught.
The OPS managing director, who runs the company with her son Justus, is convinced that the demand for alternative school models is growing nationwide.
Many families are burdened by the “school struggle”.
Gabriele Hartl also has her own experience with this.
Her son also had a career as a so-called underachiever, but then got an A high school diploma and then studied mathematics, IT, law and philosophy.
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Information:
The first information evening will take place this Thursday at 6 p.m. in the rooms of the OPS Dorfen (Orlfing 1, 84405 Dorfen).
Registrations are still possible by email to bayern@okoprivateschool.de.
Information on the Internet on the website www.okoprivateschool.de.