Can my child opt out of school on a religious holiday that we observe?
Germany - Baden-Württemberg
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Do you have a child aged 6-12?

 

The intercultural calendar of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees shows the variety of holidays and memorial days of different religions and cultures that live together in Germany. Therefore, in addition to the most important holidays from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, the Sikhs and Yazidis, the Intercultural Calendar also includes legal and other observances of various cultural traditions www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Downloads/Infothek/Sonstige/interkultureller-kalender-2018. For high holidays of other religions there are in some states the possibility to let children from the school lesson.

For special religious holidays of the respective religious communities pupils get school-free in Baden-Württemberg  It is regulated in Appendix to § 4 in the regulation of the Ministry of Culture on the obligation to attend classes and other school events (School attendance ordinance) (http://www.landesrecht-bw.de/jportal/?quelle=jlink&query=SchulBesV+BW&psml=bsbawueprod.psml&max=true&aiz=true#jlr-SchulBesVBWpP3).

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