Unfinished containers, missing equipment, dangerous crossings: Although the Eduard Spranger School’s move has been certain for more than a year, almost nothing works at the new location.
When Tanja Borrmann accompanied her children to their first day of school after the summer vacation on Tuesday morning, she was shocked. Because the containers in which the 22 classes of the Eduard Spranger Middle School have been taught since this week are more reminiscent of a construction site than a school. It was already clear during the summer holidays that it would be a difficult start for students and teachers, but even the worst expectations had been exceeded, says Borrmann. She is a member of the school’s parents’ council.
The children are now used to stress and relocations. Since the city decided to rebuild the old school building contaminated with PCBs on Eduard-Spranger-Strasse in Hasenbergl, around 470 children and young people have been on the move. The move was shortly before Corona, most of the students spent the last school year in a new container building in Feldmoching. It is now left to high school students.
So now the next move: The new school year began in new school containers near the Toni Pfülf School. New here is a euphemism. On the first day of school, the containers were still part of the construction site inside and out, complains Borrmann. The toilets not finished, toilets for the disabled on the first and second floor without elevator, partly missing floor coverings and unfinished walls. The list is long. Not to mention blackboards, whiteboards, telephones and working internet. Loud construction noise from outside bothers students and teachers.
The situation becomes dangerous because the city does not seem to have taken sufficient care of road safety. The mobility department complains to the SZ about the “tight time window until school starts” and the “lack of crossing numbers”. However, it had been certain for over a year that the 470 students would move. And that some central islands are not enough to cross the streets, it became apparent on the first day of school. “There is absolute chaos,” said the local police station. “You have to do something, otherwise there will be injuries,” says a high-ranking police officer. The mobility department was now active again and visited the place on Thursday morning, as a spokesman confirmed. However, he was unable to provide any concrete results afterwards. You have to arrange another on-site appointment “promptly”.
Throughout the summer vacation, parents and headmaster Florian Schmidt had tried to ensure that the school’s move did not end in a complete mess. Obviously in vain, says Borrmann. Although the municipal education department had previously promised “pragmatic support”. Delivery bottlenecks for material and a delayed building permit would have delayed the completion of the school containers. “We do not want to and will not accept the situation as it is. These are not conditions for a safe and purposeful everyday school life,” says Parents’ Council Borrmann.