Schools, again...

Once again there is a problem with the school situation. I mentioned that there was a takeover of control of the school council last school year. All the current teachers were fired and there are all new teachers this year. We didn't want to move the kids again, but it looks like this is not going to work out. We met with the teachers before school a month ago to ask what was going on. It seems the the school has been split into two groups, older students that are receiving regular classroom instruction and younger students that are doing some projects but are largely unsupervised during most of the school day. Our kids are not being taught (which echos the situation we had in the public schools before). We pointed out to the teachers that our son is in the age group that is receiving classroom instructions and they said that he was not included for nonsense reasons (he didn't request it and thus was not selected in the placement decision). I asked if we had any choices about our kids education (as apparently the other parents have) and we were told no. I also asked again for a username and password for the school website so we can communicate and stay on top of events and the volunteer schedule. All of the other (German) parents are able to access the website but we have been excluded and continue to be excluded and kept in the dark. So, we are looking for another school to transfer the kids to. There is another private school that we just learned about. It is farther away, but has regular classroom structure available for all of the kids, and many of the kids from this school transfered there during the takeover, so our kids will know other kids there. We have contacted the school and have a meeting with them in a few weeks, but if there is a transfer it might not be until the end of the year until it can happen.

Name change

I've fallen behind again in blog entries. A lot has happened and I will try to catch up again. Also, I've changed the title so that it is less specific and more general to northern Germany. Because of our commuting and the kids school location and so on, we really live in a region in Schleswig-Holstein, so I have renamed the blog "Norden."