In the dispute over the Planegg-Krailling music school, former chairman Thomas Roy and former headmaster Thomas Schaffert have now spoken out. Both sharply reject the criticism of the board and mayors of Planegg and Krailling, Hermannn Nafziger (CSU) and Rudolph Haux (FDP). These would have misrepresented the processes and structures in the music school, especially with regard to the allegedly too great influence of the teachers.
“The fact is that for 50 years, four representatives sent by local parliaments have represented the two communities on the board and have never been overruled by the other five board members, who were elected from the association’s base of parents, sponsors and employees,” emphasizes Schaffert, who is now deputy head of the music school again. You have “always” strived for a “good relationship with both town halls.” It remains “incomprehensible” how the change in the statutes desired by the mayors “should conjure up the truce.”
Mayor Nafziger works with “distortions,” says Schaffert. For example, the statement that the teachers had “70 days of vacation” was a “false statement with full knowledge of the big difference between statutory vacation entitlement and working hours available without teaching”. Incidentally, these regulations were not made by the teachers, as claimed by the two politicians, “but by the board of directors and local communities when the employee tariff was adopted 32 years ago”. The employees could not, as claimed by Nafziger and Schaffert, have a say “about salaries and personnel decisions” as in a self-service shop. All of this is governed by the Works Constitution Act. Moreover, only ten percent of the association’s members are teachers.
Thomas Roy, chairman of the school from 1994 to 2014, points out in a letter that the school was not founded by the communities, but by committed teachers and citizens. The “very up-to-date co-determination” of the teachers “contributes significantly to their high level of identification with their employer,” he writes. The “motivation resulting from this was a cornerstone for the considerable success of the music school.” This has “always been certified with praise” by the past seven mayors in 50 years.
Moreover, according to the former SPD municipal and district councillor, “complaints about a lack of influence on the part of the municipalities do not do justice to the facts”. The ratio of municipal councilors to other board members was at times “six to nine”. To this day there is “a ratio in favor of the communities of five to four”. Thomas Roy prophesies: “The now intended complete hollowing out of the association will not achieve peace. Strengthening the cohesion of the music school family is only possible if the board fundamentally improves its communication and dialogue skills.”