Moving vacation days

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Movable vacation days are a concept to give the individual schools in Germany the opportunity to schedule a fixed number of vacation days individually during the school vacation . In Austria , this concept is established under the heading of the school autonomous days .

The flexible vacation days are intended to give schools the opportunity to organize their own lesson times, for example to compensate for long bridging days and take into account local traditional festivals. There can also be advantages for families if vacation trips can still be started at favorable seasonal conditions by setting the dates accordingly.

The regulations for flexible vacation days are made by the individual German states . In some cases, the flexible vacation days are counted towards the 75 vacation days stipulated nationwide in the Hamburg Agreement , in some cases they have to be reworked on non-teaching days (ie de facto on Saturday).

distribution

Not all German states have introduced flexible vacation days or have abolished them in the meantime. There are movable vacation days in Baden-Württemberg , Brandenburg , Bremen , Hesse , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia , but no movable vacation days in Berlin and Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Bavaria . In Bavaria, flexible vacation days were abolished for the 2005/06 school year after they had been introduced in the early 1990s.

criticism

Moving vacation days are a problem especially for families with several school-age children at different schools. If all parents are employed, there are considerable problems with childcare: in principle, each child has to spend separate vacation days.

This problem is to be taken into account by the fact that, depending on the regulation, the neighboring schools or all schools in a municipality or a school district are required to agree on uniform, flexible vacation days. However, with this arrangement, the problems listed above can still arise for families if their children have to go to different, more distant schools.

Problems also arise from catching up on moving vacation days, for example with regard to school transport.

Due to this criticism, the mobile vacation days were abolished in some federal states, for example in Bavaria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 58 days until the next vacation! In: Press release of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education, Culture, Science and Art No. 98/157. September 4, 1998, Retrieved June 25, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Change to the announcement regarding holiday regulations and school-free Saturdays for the school year 2005/2006. (PDF; 96 kB) Announcement of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture of July 26, 2005 No. III.6-5 S 4407-6.50 961. In: Supplement to the Official Gazette of the Bavarian State Ministries for Education and Culture and Science, Research and Art , Issued in Munich on August 16, 2005, number 15, year 2005. Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, p. 167 , accessed on April 3, 2018 .
  3. ^ Catrin Boldebuck: School - expulsion from paradise. Stern Online, March 7, 2007, accessed February 14, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Draft law amending the Bavarian law on education and instruction, printed matter 15/5674. (PDF; 292 kB) Bavarian State Parliament, June 12, 2006, p. 21 , accessed on June 25, 2012 (justification for Section 1 No. 32 Letter b (Art. 89 BayEUG)): “For those up to the 2004 school year / 2005 planned mobile vacation days and their mandatory catch-up, there were acceptance problems, especially with regard to vacation planning, the organization of school transport and school operations. "