School shop
School shops are usually small, self-managed after-school care centers , mostly private sponsoring associations , in which primary school children are looked after after school. An average of 16–20 children are looked after per school shop. School shops are usually open between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. - mostly all day during the holidays. Former shops are often used, which is why they are called "... laden" - as in the children's shops .
They arose in the 1970s as part of the spontaneous movement, initially in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin , where they still exist today, and generally pursued concepts of anti-authoritarian education .
Self-managed means that the school shops are run by small, non-profit associations in which the parents and often also the educators have come together. These associations organize the work of the school shop.
The tasks parents and educators do on their own differs from shop to shop. As a rule, administration and maintenance are carried out on a voluntary basis. There are almost as many models for the areas of cooking, cleaning and sickness replacement as there are school shops.
The voluntary commitment of all those involved is tied to the possibility of being able to guarantee more individual care for the children in the small school shops than is the case in large institutions.
There are (still) numerous school shops in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin . Some school shops go beyond after-school care and have established themselves as recreational facilities for children and young people or offer other offers. The school shop-school meeting point eV in Würzburg z. B. is a platform for cooperation between student representatives at city level and also offers cultural and leisure activities. In the 1980s several such clubs were founded in Bavaria , of which the Würzburger is the only one that remains.