Schools – Munich – Debate on transfer certificates for fourth graders – Bavaria
Munich (dpa/lby) – The fourth graders in the Free State will receive their transition certificates with the school career recommendation on Monday – and as every year, a debate has broken out about the usefulness of this requirement. The Bavarian Teachers’ Association (BLLV), for example, which mainly represents primary and secondary school teachers, does not see individual support and equal opportunities and education in the current system – regardless of the additional and very different consequences of the Corona Pandemic.
In Bavaria, the transfer recommendation for the Realschule or the Gymnasium is based on the average of the grades in the three subjects German, mathematics and home and general education. “Today in Bavaria, the digits after the decimal point initially decide on the further school path of a nine or ten-year-old child and pupils,” criticized BLLV President Simone Fleischmann.
She therefore advocates leaving the decision up to the parents, after all, three grades do not reflect the ability or potential of the children as a whole with all their abilities and skills. The chairman of the Bavarian secondary school teachers’ association, Jürgen Böhm, on the other hand, demanded: “This ideologically charged discussion on the usefulness of transferring to secondary schools must finally come to an end!” Criticism of the transfer procedure completely ignores reality.
“School must not be a “pseudo sanctuary” under laboratory conditions, in which performance and grading are always equated with pressure and stress,” argued Böhm. It is important that the children are not overwhelmed by choosing the wrong school, but that they are encouraged according to their individual talents.
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