Compulsory education

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A duty to educate is understood as an ethical self-commitment to individually educate oneself intellectually or technically . As formal education compulsory duty is called, education to provide the evidence, usually through performance tests . A compulsory education stipulates that approved schools are visited, is guaranteed to those that the required performance where evidence can be provided.

Compulsory schooling can have the same effect as compulsory education. However, attending school does not necessarily guarantee the education provided there. In Germany , minors are required to attend school. After the end of the age limit for school-age children , however, it is possible to leave school without a qualification if the performance records required at school have not been provided. Exceptions from compulsory schooling have only been approved in a few individual cases. The number of untrained children and young people in Germany is currently estimated at around 500 to 1,000.

In countries without compulsory schooling, this can alternatively be fulfilled outside of recognized school facilities through home tuition (including home tuition , domicile tuition , homeschooling ). Proof of performance is provided in the form of external examinations . In Switzerland , Austria , France , Spain , the Benelux - and in the Scandinavian countries (except Sweden), unskilled learning is possible.

Goals and Reasons

In Germany, the initiative Network Freedom of Education has been campaigning for compulsory education for children and young people instead of compulsory school attendance This network are z. B. the Federal Association of Natural Learning! e. V. , the Stiftung Netzwerk Hochbegabung , the European Forum for Freedom in Education ( effe ), the association Schulbildung in Familieninitiative e. V. , affiliated with the German Aid for Foreigners and Others Initiative , as well as university professors, educators, doctors, lawyers, psychologists, therapists as well as parents and students from the religious to alternative camp of homeschoolers.

The Party of Reason (PDV) advocates replacing compulsory schooling in Germany with compulsory education. The state only has a role in access to education, but upbringing is none of its business, as it is subject to pure parental rights. In particular, the monopoly of schools as the only possible form of education in Germany is viewed critically by the party, not least because it is of the opinion that certain teaching content would not be imparted in a completely neutral way. Furthermore, it is criticized that the state with compulsory schooling specifies how the attainment of education should be, although the school may not be optimally suited as a form of education for everyone.

Advocates of compulsory education refer in particular to Article 26 (3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which stipulates: "Parents have a primary right to choose the type of education that their children should be given." Freedom of assembly . The initiative reported to UN Education Commissioner Vernor Muñoz on his trip through Germany in February 2006 .

Another aspect of the advocates of compulsory education is the choice of the social environment for their child. Without this option, upbringing as active behavior on the part of the parents would not be possible.

See also

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literature

  • Dagmar Neubronner: The free learners - Our life without school. Genius Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3934719347
  • Ralph Fischer and Volker Ladenthin (eds.): Homeschooling. Tradition and perspective. Ergon, Würzburg, 2006. ISBN 3-89913-482-6
  • Stefanie Mohsennia: No school: Learning without borders. Anahita-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-937797-03-3
  • Olivier Keller: Because my life is learning. Arbor-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-933020-06-9
  • Raimund Pousset: Abolish compulsory schooling! VTR, Nuremberg, 2011 (2nd revised and expanded edition). ISBN 978-3-941750-47-0
  • Ulrich Klemm: Learning without school. Arguments against schooling and nationalization of education. SPAK books, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-930830-22-1
  • Johannes Heimrath: Tilman doesn't go to school. A successful school refusal. Drachen Verlag, Wolfratshausen 1991, ISBN 3-927369-02-0
  • Thomas Schirrmacher: Compulsory education instead of compulsory schooling - constitutional law and parental rights in view of the discussion about home schooling. VKW, Bonn / VTR, Nuremberg, 2005, ISBN 3-937965-27-0
  • Bertrand Stern : freedom of education instead of compulsory education. In: Yearbook Children's Rights and Youth Policy. Knowledge Verlag Wilde , Fürth 1992, ISBN 3-926810-23-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Network Education Freedom - umbrella organization for homeschoolers
  2. ↑ Federal Association of Natural Learning! e. V.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Position of the Party of Reason on the subject of education and science. In: parteidervernunft.de. Retrieved on April 5, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Homeschooling & Co. as an alternative? Retrieved on February 24, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ #FridaysforFuture - An argument against compulsory schooling. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. Retrieved on July 5, 2020 (German).