A state Gymivorbereitung for all city children

The Timing is perfect – or perfectly nasty, depending on your perspective. Ironically, last night of the Zurich municipal Council has decided to provide more equal opportunities in the Gymiprüfung. As an insult it must seem to those young people who have just sweated hours before blood. Because yesterday was also the last day of the entrance exams.

hundreds of pupils from across the city have restless sleep, are nervous, stood up, and some have asked whether the neighbor is so eager to Write, because the parents have bought an expensive exam preparation. Private learning studios report sharply increasing numbers of participants. Although such a course that lasts from August to February, costs depending on the provider, up to 3500 francs.

courses are part of the "lousy"

This price is for parents with little money are too high – that, among other things, the Green courtship Bürgisser, which was responsible for for years, the admission procedures at the Rämibühl-Gymi and math entrance examinations in the Canton of stressed in the Council. He spoke of the "urgent need for action". The tests were not become so difficult that it is also for gifted children without any preparation. And it was proven that additional private courses to increase the chances of admission to the Gymi. Or, as Patrik Maillard of the AL said that today is the wallet of the parents to decide instead of the talent.

The representatives of all the parties not agreed that it is the equality of opportunity to the Best, if it is in the Zurich mountain, about 40 percent of children make it into the Long high school, while in schwamendingen under 10 percent. And with the exception of the SVP, all with a push of the Juso, the want to change this to supported. Contents: The city Council should ensure that all schools in the city, a high-quality exam preparation.

While Zurich is already more than some of the other municipality in the Canton: For a few years, there are in all 6. Classes at the primary level and in all of the 2. Secondary school classes in two lessons of exam preparation per week. But firstly, they start according to Bürgisser, in comparison with private rates, relatively late, and, secondly, variations in the quality of school to school: "they performed lousy."

Even the FDP does not like to pay for it

That improvement is likely to cost money, only takes the Left. Even Yasmine Bourgeois of the FDP for the use of additional resources, if necessary. This could even though they had previously expressed further concerns, better public courses in the education arms race continue to tighten, because then even wealthy parents have invested even more.

Isabel Garcia of the GLP held: "If children want to go to the Gymi and the ability to do so, you should be able to go this way, without having parents take money in the Hand." Good preparatory courses would therefore be in the elementary school free of charge. Only the budding Seklehrer Stefan Urech of the SVP held against it: One could not level out all the injustices of government Intervention. "Because it is not so in the offices of those families where the TV is running, and can't pull the plug." In addition, the state should not promote the "exaggerated storm on the Gymi" yet, but the Prestige of secondary school and professional teaching strengths.

Similar to the one for the school competent councillor Filippo leutenegger (FDP) argued. He warned not to overestimate the school-leaving certificate of the Royal route. He cited the example of Geneva, where more than half of all young people go to the Gymi, but many fall out again. These drop-outs were then between the chair and the Bank would have neither a baccalaureate nor professional teaching. Leutenegger was "motivated", the proposal from the Parliament to implement more justice. "But not at the price of 40 percent of high school graduates in the whole country." (Tages-Anzeiger)

Created: 14.03.2019, 07:08 PM