90 minutes for 900 meters: Parents in Zurich complain that the journey to school is too long

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A boy (5), instead of the kindergarten in the school unit where his two older siblings are located, is placed in a kindergarten 900 meters away from his home and about 400 meters away from the other.

Parents in the Horgen ZH district are unhappy with the decision. According to the Federal Constitution, your son has the right to travel to school by a “reasonable” route. However, according to Zürichsee Zeitung, your child needs 45 to 90 minutes to complete the 900-meter track with an altitude difference of 57 meters.

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“Enormous organizational challenges”

The judges of the Zurich Administrative Court did not buy this timeline. Even at a speed of two kilometers per hour, the child covered this distance in 27 minutes. So the road to school is not very long. And from previous reviews, it can be seen that a 30-minute walk is reasonable for a kindergarten child.

According to the “Zürichsee Zeitung”, it is not just the length of the journey to school that bothers parents. Not having all three children going to school in the same place presents the family with “enormous organizational challenges that are completely unnecessary.”

Complaint accepted

What does the school say about this? According to the decision, he justified his decision by saying that the following issues were taken into account when making the allocation: geographical criteria, balanced class sizes and the distribution of children in need of special education.

But the school administration should have explained more clearly which public interests conflicted with parents’ wishes. Since this was not the case, the complaint was approved and the child was assigned to the desired kindergarten.

However, according to the Zürichsee Zeitung, the decision was not without controversy: The minority of the responsible court panel viewed the decision differently. The allocation of a school building can only be objected to if the road to the school is not reasonable; This was not the case here. (gs)

Source : Blick

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