Erfurt (dpa/th) - Red-Red-Green wants to abolish the final exam in the tenth grade at high school in Thuringia. A corresponding draft law by the parliamentary groups of the left, SPD and Greens is to be discussed in the state parliament next week, as Thuringia's left-wing parliamentary group leader Steffen Dittes said on Wednesday in Erfurt. "There is no such special assessment of performance in other federal states," argued the left-wing politician.
The exam was introduced in response to the shooting rampage at Erfurt's Gutenberg-Gymnasium in 2002. If they pass the exam, the students at the Gymnasium receive a Realschule certificate after the tenth grade, even if they are not aiming for the Abitur or do not complete it.
According to the ideas of the Left, SPD and Greens, high school students should now receive a Realschule certificate without this examination if they meet the requirements for being promoted to the eleventh grade. This emerges from the corresponding draft for the amendment of the Thuringian school law, which is available to the German Press Agency.
It is unclear whether this change will actually take place. Red-Red-Green does not have a majority in Parliament, four votes are missing. So far, the CDU has always been against the abolition of the special performance assessment. In addition, the CDU and FDP have submitted their own proposal to amend the school law.
