Mannheim school system

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The Mannheim school system created by City School Councilor Joseph Anton Sickinger (1858–1930) in 1901 was the forerunner of the school system that is still valid in Germany today.

Sickinger's goal was to promote the students according to their respective abilities. He achieved this by creating a differentiated elementary school system . The talented primary school students were divided into main and normal classes. The less gifted pupils came in remedial classes, those with poor performance in auxiliary classes. Language classes were offered for grades 6 to 8 to enable them to move to a higher school.

The Mannheim school system met with great interest in specialist circles after Sickinger presented it at the 1904 international school congress in Nuremberg . In the following years it was taken over by the states of Hesse and Saxony as well as over 150 German and Austrian cities.

In addition, Sickinger appointed Hans Lämmermann in Mannheim in 1922, Germany's first school psychologist to support the school reform. In 1935 the Mannheim school system was banned by the National Socialists.

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