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Mannheim (dpa / lsw) - Opposition politicians have welcomed a court decision to receive three examination subjects for prospective teachers.
"We are pleased about the decision of the administrative court," emphasized the FDP in the state parliament.
The Liberals responded to an incontestable decision by the Mannheim judges.
The SPD parliamentary group also sees the decision as positive and spoke on Wednesday of a "slap in the face" for Education Minister Susanne Eisenmann (CDU).
The result of the decision of the 9th Senate is that graduates of a teacher training course with one major and two minor subjects will continue to be trained and tested in three subjects during their legal clerkship.
A short-term changeover of training to two subjects on February 1 of this year, initiated by the Ministry of Culture, will thus become obsolete.
Graduates of the First State Examination filed an urgent application against the change in the examination regulations for elementary, secondary and secondary school teachers that came into force in November 2020.
According to the court, the Ministry wanted to use the innovation to adapt teacher training at universities of teacher education to the university Bachelor / Master system.
The FDP education expert Timm Kern said: "The obligation to cancel one of the three subjects in the legal clerkship would not only have meant for those affected that they had performed a service for free."
Rather, their later employment opportunities as teachers would have been limited - to the disadvantage of their future schools.
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The SPD parliamentary group asked the minister of education to inform the prospective trainee lawyers that they could do their training in three subjects as planned.
In addition, the necessary money must be made available, demanded the SPD university expert Gabi Rolland.
From the point of view of the VGH, the disputed regulation is not compatible with the basic right of those affected to freely choose a career and the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations.
The Ministry could have made or at least announced a transitional arrangement for access to the clerkship earlier.
this would have made it possible for those affected to adapt to the change in the law in a reasonable manner, for example through a more rapid study structure (Az. 9 S 4060/20).
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