Student guide

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A student pilot , the official name in Germany as a traffic assistant , is an administrative assistant whose task it is to enable students to safely cross a street. At the pilot point, the students are guided across the lane individually or in small groups. To do this, the student pilot waits for a sufficiently large gap in the traffic flow. He also makes himself noticeable to road users by means of his student pilot's trowel.

School guides in Germany

history

Student guides in Bonn in 1956

On January 14, 1953, the US- born idea of ​​a school pilot service was also introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany . The introduction goes back to an initiative of several partners, including the German traffic watch (DVW) . Today, the tasks of further developing the training concept and equipping the road workers with uniforms lie with the DVW alone. The police are mainly involved in pilot training ; the schools are largely involved in naming pilots. The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) supports the project financially.

Nationwide around 50,000 people are currently active as school guides.

Mission details

Student guides are mainly on duty before the start of lessons, but often also after school has finished. They do their job in all seasons and in all weathers.

A signal trowel, a neon yellow cap together with a neon yellow throw or a weatherproof jacket with reflectors are used to identify the student guides.

In Germany, school guides must be at least thirteen years old and in the seventh grade. In Brandenburg , training is possible from the age of eleven and in Berlin from the fifth grade. Adults (e.g. parents of school-age children or other interested fellow citizens) can also register as school guides. Employment can only be considered after training and passing an exam.

The Deutsche Verkehrswacht emphasizes that in over 60 years of practical operation at the crossings secured by pilots there has not been a single fatal traffic accident.

The service is voluntary, honorary and unpaid.

Student pilot competitions are organized annually, first at city or district level, then at state level. The best of the federal states meet for the national student guide competition and put their theoretical and practical skills to the test. At the federal level, the participants receive a reward as thanks for their commitment, the winners a prize.

Other initiatives to enable schoolchildren to get to school safely are, for example, the Pedibus campaign , the Schulwegspiel project or the pedestrian diploma project . Road helpers are on duty at all of them.

German road sign number 356

Traffic helper

School pilots belong to the group of road helpers. The use of road helpers, the official designation in Germany according to StVO § 42, is indicated by the blue traffic sign 356 at a due distance . The predecessor, the traffic sign "Schülerlotse" with the same ordinal number, has been renamed so that it can serve as the legal basis for a greater variety of committed helpers in road traffic. In addition to school pilots, school assistants, school bus pilots and school bus attendants as well as traffic cadets are referred to as traffic assistants .

School guides in Austria

history

In Austria , pupil guides were first used on November 13, 1964 in front of a school in the Salzburg district of Lehen called "emergency helpers". Fifty years later, around 3,000 schoolchildren were used as school guides.

Differentiation between a school pilot and a school walker

From a legal point of view, a distinction must be made between the school route police and school guides when it comes to securing school routes.

The school that uses school guides or school route policemen must report the data of the persons securing to the responsible state school council or city ​​school council so that accident and liability insurance is guaranteed during the securing activity. The respective federal state pays the premiums for this . In order to become a school path police officer or school guide, the person must be found to be "reliable" after a medical examination, after all they must be on site by the specified dates and must be trained at the school route security.

Mission details

Despite many efforts to find volunteers, the way to school is largely carried out by the police , where this is not the case, people doing community service as well as volunteers and, in Burgenland , security partners are also used as police officers . They are equipped with a reflective yellow jacket or a yellow or orange coat (with the inscription "POLIZEI ZIVILDIENST" for those doing community service) as well as a signal and an identity card.

Asylum seekers as police officers on the way to school

In 2017, asylum seekers worked as police officers on their way to school in Upper Austria . The responsible FPÖ regional transport councilor Günther Steinkellner has now decreed that a B driving license is a requirement for this service. The state's constitutional service determined in early October 2017 that this ordinance does not apply to local roads; Here the respective mayor can determine whether or not a driver's license is required; Asylum seekers usually do not have a driver's license.

School guides in other countries

In the UK, school crossing guards are called " Lollipop referred -Man / Lady", as they hold a head-high stop sign in his hand, like a giant lollipop (Engl. Lollipop ) looks. Both her uniform and the shield are mostly in a yellow luminous color with white reflective strips, which reinforces the visual impression. In the UK, student guides are often exposed to verbal and physical attacks from motorists. In 2007, over 1,400 such cases were reported.

In the United States , where the majority of students use the school bus , hall monitors and safety patrolers are used in elementary and middle schools to supervise school hallways at start and end of school and the five-year-olds To guide kindergardeners safely to their classrooms or buses. Road crossings in the immediate school area are secured in the USA by lowering the maximum speed limit (in New York e.g. 25 mph, about 40 km / h). Adult crossing guards are also deployed there in the mornings and afternoons .

Web links

Wiktionary: Student guide  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d website of the Deutsche Verkehrswacht: Schülerlotsen.
  2. ↑ Information for the police, schools, municipalities and school guides. (PDF; 992 kB) German traffic watch, 2009 .;
  3. ↑ 60 years and not a bit “saggy socks”: School guides in Germany. 60th birthday of the German student pilot service. Deutsche Verkehrswacht, January 11, 2013, archived from the original on January 19, 2019 .;
  4. ↑ http://www.freifahrt.at/12584+M58bd18fd1c9.html
  5. ↑ 50 years ago, the first student guides started in Salzburg. OE24.at, November 11, 2014 .;
  6. ↑ a b Legal basis of road safety in Austria. Legal sources and responsibilities for traffic safety measures. March 18, 2011, archived from the original on August 18, 2016 .;
  7. ↑ Michael Achleitner: Guided safely across the street. Traffic Education Network, October 21, 2013 .;
  8. ↑ Legal regulation for school route safety ordinance. RIS;
  9. ↑ a b Vienna is looking for more student guides. In: wien.orf.at. 10th September 2017 .;
  10. ^ School route police - Elternlotsen.
  11. ↑ Community service providers as school guides. Federal Ministry of the Interior, January 14, 2011 .;
  12. ^ "Security partners " patrol Burgenland. In: derStandard.at. October 12, 2016 .;
  13. ↑ a b Safety on the way to school. Lower Austrian provincial government, August 2018 .;
  14. ↑ Asylum seekers can remain student guides. orf.at, October 3, 2017 .;
  15. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 2, 2008, p. 12