Can my child opt out of school on a religious holiday that we observe?
Germany - Mecklenburg - Vorpommern
English
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.

On religious holidays in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, pupils and teachers of all types of schools who belong to state-recognized religious communities can, upon request, be freed from teaching to visit the church service (http://www.lexsoft.de/cgi-bin/lexsoft/justizportal_nrw.cgi?xid=146370,8).

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