As of: February 16, 2024, 5:46 a.m
By: Charlotte Borst
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Children on the way to school.
(Symbolic image) © Peter Steffen
Even if a young person attended a school further away, the Munich district has so far paid for the journey there.
This is now over.
District – All children and young people are entitled to their school journey free of charge.
Travel costs will be reimbursed for the journey to the next suitable school.
However, many students take a further journey to their favorite school, and the district does not cover this.
However, it pays guest school contributions for all students who attend secondary schools outside the district: in 2023 this cost 24.1 million euros.
The district therefore has a great interest in students attending the district's own schools.
It therefore no longer finances - as it did between 2020 and 2022 - the route to more distant schools, for example the Holzkirchen secondary school, which was attractive to many students.
But now a new secondary school is ready in Oberhaching-Deisenhofen.
“A jumble of 8,000 applications”
Sometimes it's difficult to explain: The district is currently paying for seven students to travel to the technical high school in Holzkirchen because it is the closest school based on where they live and the field they have chosen.
In contrast, the district office rejected six applications from students at the FOS Holzkirchen because their chosen subject is offered at a Munich FOS because it is closer and only the M zone is required instead of zones 1-3.
Parents often cannot understand this.
Year after year there is “a salad” of applications, said District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU) in the Social Committee: “A mass of 7,000 to 8,000 applications and every year a program to increase the popularity of the district,” he said with an ironic undertone.
Because applications are rejected again and again.
Göbel hopes that the Free State will abolish the “mass of regulations” and soon introduce a uniform student ticket, “whatever it should be called.”
Are state resources sufficient for mandatory tasks?
After a short discussion, the Social Committee spoke out against making an exception for FOS Holzkirchen.
“If we pay it in Holzkirchen, we have to pay it everywhere,” said Göbel.
An exception would apply if the FOS in Holzkirchen had formed precursor classes for the new FOS in Oberhaching, which is scheduled to open in 2025, which is not the case.
Göbel warned against even more voluntary services, because the district is already paying 350,000 euros in travel costs, including for children who are not yet of school age and need support.
“It may be that the state resources we receive are not even enough for our mandatory tasks.”
ÖDP district councilor Karin Schuster sees it differently, she advocated that school travel costs should be borne in general - and not just for “a few schools in the same corner that always do a special curl,” with which she was referring to Oberhaching.
“It would be easy if we had a full bag of money”
The free choice of school should not become a question of money for either the families or the district: 275,000 euros for the 750 additional cases in which the district would pay voluntarily, “is not the world chosen for a school education based on school freedom,” she said: Everything would become easier, the administration would no longer have to spend so much time, “because that also costs money”.
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The majority voted 17:1 against even more voluntary services.
Nicola Gerhardt (CSU) argued: “The matter would be easy if we had a full money bag.
But we don't have it." It doesn't cause much distress not to release the money anymore, "because there are schools available."
The district must pay attention to reducing bureaucracy.
Katharina Diem (FDP) sees the Free State as having an obligation to finance a ticket for all students so that “everyone can attend the school that suits them”.
Göbel replied that this had already been agreed in the coalition agreement.
Natascha Kohnen (SPD) suggested contacting the state parliament “to speed up the fulfillment of the coalition agreement.” Now the district council still has to decide.
Further news from the Munich district can be found here.