District day is planning reductions: Is the future of HASA courses in danger?

District day is planning reductions: Is the future of HASA courses in danger?

The district council of Böblingen plans radical savings at the HASA main school courses in Sindelfingen, who have offered many young people and adults the opportunity to catch up on their secondary school since 1980. According to the reports of Stuttgarter Nachrichten and the HASA support association could possibly be completely deleted the courses that have an impressive success rate of 98% in the final exams. In the household 2025/2026, an application is discussed that provides for a halving of the grant to 150,000 euros. If the necessary cooperation does not come about, this could mean the end of the program.

The chairman of the Hasa Association, Wolfgang Trede, who was head of the district's youth welfare office for 20 years, expresses a haunting appeal to rethink the cuts in order to maintain a educational offer for socially disadvantaged young people for decades. The educational institution, which currently looks after 34 participants in daily courses and 15 in evening courses, enables the pupils to be prepared for the foreign school leaving certificate within about ten months, which is why the measures of the district council are criticized as "short-sighted".

hasa - a load -bearing pillar of education

The Hasa courses not only promote school success, but also social and intercultural skills. The lecturers and social educators offer the students individual support and strive to create a professional perspective to each participant. This is also emphasized on the official Hasa website, where the facility is described as immensely important in order to give particularly disadvantaged groups a chance. Despite the high-quality educational offers, the HASA courses are now on the brink, which the concern about the future of the educational landscape in the district of Böblingen, as Hasa -haupschulabschlag.de reports.