Baden-Württemberg wants to develop a new model for the return to nine-year high schools. The parents’ initiative continues to put pressure on G9 and expects quick results.
After the Baden-Württemberg state government announced that it wanted to develop a new model for a nine-year high school, the initiators of a popular proposal are continuing to put pressure on it. “We won’t let up until an acceptable concept is on the table,” said Anja Plesch-Krubner, one of the initiators of the popular proposal for a quick return to nine-year high schools in Baden-Württemberg.
Students and teachers at a G9 high school in Stuttgart explain why they think nine years until the Abitur are better than G8:
G8 or G9: State parliament must deal with the issue
The initiative wants to force a return to nine-year high schools in Baden-Württemberg. The initiators collected more than 100,000 signatures and handed them over to the state parliament. Parliament will probably have to deal with the application next year.
If the state parliament rejects the initiative’s draft law, the initiators can apply for a referendum. Then they would have to collect signatures again, but in this case from a tenth of those eligible to vote in Baden-Würtemberg – that is currently around 770,000 people. If they succeed, a referendum could ultimately decide on the length of high school.
Kretschmann: No quick implementation of G9
Afterwards a citizens’ forum convened by the state government recommended a return to a modernized G9, the country announced on Tuesday that it was open to a “new G9” and was starting a process to develop such a new model. “We will not make any quick decisions or simply return to the G9 of the 1990s. We will work out a solution that meets the requirements of our time and takes up the recommendations of the Citizens’ Forum,” said Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens).
However, Kretschmann had no hope for a quick, comprehensive G9: it was difficult for him to imagine that the switch to a nine-year high school would be possible for the coming school year, said Kretschmann. The parents’ initiative sees it completely differently: “We demand that this happens as quickly as possible, i.e. by the next school year,” said Plesch-Krubner. From the perspective of the initiative, the country could initially use the educational plans of the G9 model schools until a concept for the modernized G9 is available.
Kretschmann welcomed the Citizens’ Forum’s recommendation, but its demands were “a bit of a jack-of-all-trades”:
G8 at the Standard high school in Baden-Württemberg
The eight-year high school is currently standard in Baden-Württemberg. G9 only exists as a model project in 44 state schools and some private schools. The parents justified their initiative to return to G9 by saying that the children were under great pressure to perform and had little free time due to the shortened school time.
Broadcast on Sunday, December 17th, 2023 10:00 a.m., people, SWR1 Baden-Württemberg
G8 and G9 at high schools in BW
2023-12-17 07:27:13
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