Green parliamentary group: Erlensee urgently needs to take new elementary school / worries in Großkrotzenburg seriously
"The debate on school development in the Main-Kinzig district that has prevailed for months and the lack of a response from the Grand Coalition in the form of a adopted school development plan have unnecessarily exacerbated the situation in Erlensee and Großkrotzenburg," says Matthias Zach, spokesperson for education policy for the Green parliamentary group in the district of Main-Kinzig. Currently, capacities in the primary school sector are lacking in Erlensee and Großkrotzenburg. “The situation there will worsen in the coming years.”
A solution on the part of the Main-Kinzig-Kreis “has not been advanced according to our current state of knowledge. Instead of making concrete proposals for solutions publicly and making decisions as quickly as possible, the circle, as it writes itself, only engages in ‘intensive discussions’, says Zach. ‘However, the construction of a new primary school is not completed in a few weeks, and the expansion of the Erlense school at the Eulenhof, which has been discussed, is not going from one day to the next.’ It is now foreseeable when and how high the demand will be in the coming years.
"Usually, a school development plan provides these answers and shows the district council concrete measures for the coming years," says Renate Tonecker-Bös, a member of the district council in Erlense. The school development plan to be adopted for the years from 2021 has been in debt for over a year, Winfried Ottmann, after the first version was rejected because of school policy content errors, wrong numbers and omissions as well as spelling and formatting errors in the district council. "This lack of prospects and the subsequent inaction in the context of school development now have to bathe the pupils and especially the parents in Erlensee, if there are no longer enough primary school places. Because up to three new class trains will be needed in the next two to three years.” Until there is a bottleneck, it is only a matter of time, says Tonecker-Bös.
The same problem can now be seen elsewhere. “Not only in Erlensee, but also at the primary school in Großkrotzenburg, places are slowly becoming scarce,” says Lucas Bäuml, Green Mayoral Candidate for Großkrotzenburg. There, the number of families exercising their legal right to full-time care will rise from the current 30 to around 150 in 2029: "This means that existing capacities also need to be strengthened. I clearly miss a solution-oriented support of the municipality by the Main-Kinzig-Kreis as school promoter", Bäuml looks with concern at the previous attitude of the district that the existing classrooms would be sufficient for the implementation of school care.
The district parliamentary group has therefore asked a catalogue of questions to the Main-Kinzig-Kreis. "We would like to know, among other things, how long the debtor has been aware of the lack of demand in Erlensee and Großkrotzenburg and what concrete steps have been taken since then," said Zach. "In addition, we would like a concrete statement from the administration as to when the new primary schools could be completed and what solution there is on the part of the debt collector should a new building not be realised in time."
The district parliamentary group also raises the question of the school development plan: “We would like to know when this will finally be submitted to the competent bodies for advice and whether further new buildings will be promoted there in addition to the primary school in Erlensee.”
These are not the only topics on which the circle currently makes no statements. ‘Therefore, the equipment for the all-day schools decided by the district council is also
with a cafeteria and the expansion of the gymnasial offer in the Westkreis part of our extensive catalogue of questions. We hope that this will provide the much-needed answers to the current questions in the district's school development planning," concludes Zach.
Enquiries to:
Jakob Mähler
Group Managing Director
Alliance 90 / The Greens Main-Kinzig
06181/61596
0176/46763336
fraktion@gruene-mkk.de
English (UK)
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