Cooperative Comprehensive School
The cooperative comprehensive school (KGS), also called additive comprehensive school (AGS), is an existing form of comprehensive school in Germany .
Structure and purpose
The main school , secondary school and grammar school branches form the three pillars of this type of school. They correspond to the tripartite school system. In sport and often also in the subjects of aesthetic education, lessons are given across school branches , which means that pupils from all three school branches are taught in joint study groups. The framework guidelines for the respective school branch apply. The degrees that are awarded at a cooperative comprehensive school also correspond to the degrees of the Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium.
There are comprehensive schools that lead to the Abitur from grade 11 , others only offer lessons up to the 10th grade, so that students have to switch to an upper level high school or to a KGS with an upper level offer to prepare for the Abitur .
There are also mixed forms to the integrated comprehensive school (IGS), in which joint teaching is the rule, or to the purely additive comprehensive school, in which only the premises are shared. These can, for example, develop from the school itself after the decision of the overall conference of the school. In such decisions, however, the parent representatives and in some places also the student representatives must be involved.
The aim of the cooperative comprehensive school is to offer students interfaces to other types of schools and their students, despite the extensive teaching in their own school branches. This can include, for example, the division of the building according to age group instead of school branch, which can improve communication between the students and also facilitate a change of school branch. It is also possible for individual students to take part in individual subjects at a higher school level in some places, so that, for example, a mathematically gifted secondary school student can attend mathematics lessons in the grammar school branch. The prerequisite for this is a cross-school teaching staff and coordination of the teaching of the three school branches with one another. As a rule, there is only one specialist conference for each subject , in which subject teachers from all three school branches take part. This is where the course content, requirement standards, principles of performance evaluation , the introduction of textbooks and much more are coordinated between the school branches.
Popular initiative 1978 in NRW
In 1978 there was a referendum in North Rhine-Westphalia at the height of a tough school political conflict . Various groups in the country wanted to prevent the co-op school . In the period from February 16 to March 1, 1978, 3.636 million (= 29.8 percent), far more than the required fifth of those eligible to vote, voted against the project. The referendum was the only successful one in that country to date. The social-liberal state government would have been obliged to carry out a referendum, but waived it after this result. In April 1978 the state parliament withdrew the “Law on the Orientation Level and Cooperative School”. This defeat also led to the resignation of Heinz Kühn from the office of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister. See also: Cooperative School .
Individual evidence
- ^ March 1, 1978: The referendum against the KOOP school at www.landtag.nrw.de