Germany’s 16 states locked in row over dates of school summer holidays | Germany

Germany’s 16 states are locked in a violent order when they can take summer school holidays, and the two in the south are accused of permanently bylapping the best nests on the grounds that their children should help harvest.

Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are resisting from the other 14 federal states to participate in the long-standing national rotation system of school summer holidays, attended by other states.

The southern states enjoy a fixed holiday period every year, typically from the end of July or from the beginning of August to mid -September. It is the most preferred holiday home.

On the contrary, other states are forced to “share ı under a rotation system in which he left early until June and returned to school at the beginning of August. In 1964, the system was introduced to help reduce holiday blockage at roads and railways and airports and at the same time to ensure that the domestic tourism industry can benefit from a long season as possible. It is re -negotiated every five years.

In the 1960s, many children in Southern Germany had to help harvest. Although the state officials admit that this is not more applied, they are determined that they will not change their holidays from this time period.

Germany’s approximately 255,000 farm is followed by Baden-Würtemberg in Bavaria, the highest number of 5 hectares (12.3 acres) or more. Children still work on farms, but because of child protection laws, increasing automation and a decrease in agriculture, the numbers that do so are thought to be small. Children are allowed to work on their families, but only up to three hours a day and between 8 and 18:00 in the morning.

The harsh resistance against the holiday privileges of the South was founded by Dorothee Feller, the Minister of Education North Ren-Westphalia (NRW), the most populous state of Germany, which is now the largest number of farms and is still valid if it is still valid.

In an interview, Feller, a Christian democrat, would also enjoy starting NRW’s holidays later in an interview that he and other education ministers of the country planned the holiday program for the next five years.

The other states joined Fray, the Lower Saxony Minister of Education called the current agreement as “satisfactory ve and Thuringia’s call for a“ modern, fair ”system.

Berlin and Hamburg’s attempts to move away from the holidays that started a few years ago in June were greeted with violent criticism of the tourism lobby, which argued that the shrinkage of the holiday corridor ”would have a significant impact on Germany’s coastal towns and other inner holiday places such as black forests. However, since only 22% of the Germans chose to go abroad at home and 78%, according to statistics, this argument also lost weight.

Markus Söder of Bavaria’s state leader Christian Social Union insisted that he would never accept a change in the status quo, which describes the existing holiday dates as “firmly fixed to the Bavarian culture”.

He said that a shift was impossible, at least in the mid -June of the spring of Pentecost, the fact that he was very close to the summer vacation did not mean ”.

He said: “We have a holiday rhythm, so to speak, an integral part of the Bavarian DNA.”