Berlin Metropolitan School
| Berlin Metropolitan School | |
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 School yard of the Berlin Metropolitan School |
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| type of school | State-approved substitute school |
| School number | Primary School: 01P16 Secondary School: 01P16 Upper Secondary School: 01E34 |
| founding | 2004 |
| place | Berlin center |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 '37 " N , 13 ° 23' 25" E |
| carrier | Berlin Metropolitan School gGmbH |
| student | 1063 (as of 09/2019) |
| Teachers | 160 (as of 09/2019) |
| management | Silke Friedrich |
| Website | www.metropolitanschool.com |
The Berlin Metropolitan School is a private school in Berlin-Mitte with a K-12 program . The offer of the Berlin Metropolitan School includes pre-school , elementary school and secondary level ( Primary , Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary ) and offers students the international IGCSE and IBDP degrees as well as the MSA . The campus of the Berlin Metropolitan School is located in Berlin-Mitte between Linienstraße and Torstraße near the Oranienburger Tor .
Profile and focus
The school has 1063 students from preschool through 12th grade. The class size is usually 22 children per class, each cared for by a German-speaking and an English-speaking teacher. Teaching is in English according to the curricula of the International Baccalaureate Organization and the University of Cambridge on the basis of the Berlin framework curriculum. The proportion of international families at the Berlin Metropolitan School is 45%. The proportion of English-speaking teachers is 75%.
According to its own information, the BMS is the oldest international all-day school and a recognized IB World School of the International Baccalaureate Organization .
As an all-day school , the Berlin Metropolitan School offers care times from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Classes start at 8:30 a.m. and end at 3:00 p.m. / 3:45 p.m. After class, children and teenagers can choose from a program of activities, clubs and courses. According to the school program, training at the Berlin Metropolitan School should prepare all students for a globalized world. Therefore the training of problem competence , language, intercultural understanding and the development of the personality from the social competence up to the training of communicative and performing skills are in the foreground.
Furnishing
The classrooms are equipped with modern teaching aids such as interactive whiteboards and computers. The school has its own English-language children's and youth library, computer and science labs (from English "lab" for laboratory ), as well as the schoolyard, gym and cafeteria .
costs
The school fee depends on the income of the parents and is between 300 and 1,600 euros per month, depending on the grade (11th and 12th grade, as of new contract September 2014)
There are also fees for teaching / learning materials and meals.
criticism
In 2018 there was an incident by a teacher at the school, which was also examined by the school inspectorate for discrimination and racism.
In a 2016 study, two scientists from the Berlin Social Research Center (WZB) accused private schools in Berlin, including the Berlin Metropolitan School, of charging their parents too much. This disregards the principle enshrined in the constitution that "students are not encouraged to segregate according to their parents' ownership". This allegation was taken up in public and led to an intensified review.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://kress.de/news/detail/beitrag/143567-das-sind-die-neuen-eigentuemer-des-berliner-verlags.html
- ↑ http://metropolitanschool.com/de/home/
- ↑ https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/schule/lehrerin-baut-verschlag-fuer-erstklaessler-55006028.bild.html
- ↑ Michael Wrase, Marcel Marcel (2016): The disregarded constitutional requirement - How the special prohibition according to Art. 7 IV 3 GG is circumvented, NVwZ - Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 3 (22): 1591–1598.
- ↑ Jan-Martin Wiarda: Private schools: nothing for poor people. Zeit online, July 12, 2017 (DIE ZEIT No. 29/2017)
- ↑ Michael Wrase: Between educational freedom and selectivity: Why the promotion of free schools is constitutionally at stake (Verfassungsblog, December 3, 2016)
- ^ Tilmann Warnecke: Reactions to the WZB study: Berlin wants to examine allegations against private schools. In: tagesspiegel.de . November 22, 2016. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .