Categories: Entertainment

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

class = “sc-cffd1e67-0 fmXrkB”>

1/7
The five-year-old boy’s parents filed a lawsuit because the 900-metre walk to school was too long. (symbol image)

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.

more schools
Trouble with schoolwork
The girls were separated from their colleagues; parents appealed to court
Gamsen community reacts
Kids take taxi service because going to school is too dangerous
Back to school campaigns
Various campaigns for safe transportation to school
St. Suggestion from Gallen
Is school only in the mornings or fewer holidays?

“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.

Advert

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)

external content
Would you like to see this additional content (Tweet, Instagram, etc.)? If you agree to the setting of cookies and the transmission of data to external providers, you can allow all cookies and view external content directly.

Source : Blick

Share
Published by
Malan

Recent Posts

Terror suspect Chechen ‘hanged himself’ in Russian custody Egyptian President al-Sisi has been sworn in for a third term

On the same day of the terrorist attack on the Krokus City Hall in Moscow,…

1 year ago

Locals demand tourist tax for Tenerife: “Like a cancer consuming the island”

class="sc-cffd1e67-0 iQNQmc">1/4Residents of Tenerife have had enough of noisy and dirty tourists.It's too loud, the…

1 year ago

Agreement reached: this is how much Tuchel will receive for his departure from Bayern

class="sc-cffd1e67-0 iQNQmc">1/7Packing his things in Munich in the summer: Thomas Tuchel.After just over a year,…

1 year ago

Worst earthquake in 25 years in Taiwan +++ Number of deaths increased Is Russia running out of tanks? Now ‘Chinese coffins’ are used

At least seven people have been killed and 57 injured in severe earthquakes in the…

1 year ago

Now the moon should also have its own time (and its own clocks). These 11 photos and videos show just how intense the Taiwan earthquake was

The American space agency NASA would establish a uniform lunar time on behalf of the…

1 year ago

This is how the Swiss experienced the earthquake in Taiwan: “I saw a crack in the wall”

class="sc-cffd1e67-0 iQNQmc">1/8Bode Obwegeser was surprised by the earthquake while he was sleeping. “It was a…

1 year ago