10 Facts About Schulpflicht

Schulpflicht is a statutory regulation in Germany that obliges children and adolescents up to a certain age or up to the completion of a school career to attend a school.

The Schulpflicht includes not only regular and punctual school attendance, but participation in lessons and other school events, as well as doing homework.

Schulpflicht is of the opinion that in times of easy access to information via the Internet, it is harder to justify the necessity for schools.

Schulpflicht believes that schools have lost their role as the primary provider of knowledge to the next generation and their learning objectives should therefore shift the focus to promoting a child's development in areas such as personality, teamwork and creativity.

Schulpflicht assumes that in the future more and more parents will ask themselves why they should send their children to school.

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The sociologist Ulrich Oevermann, for example, is in favor of abolishing the Schulpflicht viewing it as unhelpful for creating better educated young people.

Schulpflicht criticizes the „Trichterpadagogik“ and conceives a Socratic maeutic pedagogy of understanding.

Schulpflicht says: „So rigide und repressiv wie Deutschland agiert in Europa kein anderer Staat.

Some believe the Schulpflicht is maintained because they think school costs like tutoring and school trips are an important economic factor in Germany.

Schulpflicht thinks that this monopoly is not best interests of children and that there are many factors which speak against the quality of state schools in Germany such as repeated poor results in the Pisa findings and the increasing student exodus to private schools.