Student board

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The school pension is a special type of pension in which children from more distant places are accommodated close to the school without an institutional unit between the school pension and the school. In the past, however, some boarding schools were run by teachers and their wives on their own in order to generate additional income. The trust shown by the parents in the trained teachers had a positive effect. In Prussia , for example , there was a regulation that high school students who did not live with their parents could not be accommodated in inns.

In the past, school boarding houses were also called the “press” because at that time it was often about using violence to “press” the children in a certain direction. If a school boarding school also offered tutoring , the term school press was explained by the fact that better performance should be “squeezed out” of the pupils.

As a rule, school boarding schools differ from other boarding schools in that only smaller groups of students, often of different ages, live in them, and that the focus is more on mere accommodation than on an educational concept or image of people (e.g. in denominational or reform-educational boarding schools ) lies. To this day, this type of boarding school is not only common in Germany. However, their importance has fallen sharply due to the availability of secondary schools, including in rural areas and better transport connections. Literary themes of boarding school or “presses” can be found e.g. B. in the autobiographies of Johann Gottfried Seume , Gerhart Hauptmann and Joachim Ringelnatz as well as in the novel Die Zwille by Ernst Jünger .

literature

  • Klaus Johann: Limit and stop. The individual in the “House of Rules”. On German-language boarding school literature (= contributions to recent literary history. Volume 201). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 3-8253-1599-1 , (dissertation University of Münster 2002).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pension 4) money for food and housing, food for money, food institution ... educational institution ... food school. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889, Sp. 1542 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ Thomas Simon in an advertising brochure about his school pension.
  3. ↑ Klaus Johann: Limit and Halt: The Individual in the "House of Rules". To German-language boarding school literature. Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg Winter 2003. (= contributions to recent literary history. 201.) P. 7 f.
  4. ^ Walter Kempowski : In the autobiographical novel Tadellöser & Wolf.
  5. ↑ Klaus Johann: Limit and Halt: The Individual in the "House of Rules". P. 73 or 8.