A mother of four from Salzburg has to worry about her part-time job because her children can no longer go to school and kindergarten together. But the family desperately needs the money. The person concerned calls on the city council to give in and says: “We have our backs against the wall!”
The balance between children and work is difficult. Ingrid Eichberger from Salzburg-Schallmoos knows this from her own experience: “Until now, this was only possible thanks to the magistrate’s courtesy.”
Eichberger’s four children, ages four to nine, have attended Gnigl’s education campus, where elementary school and kindergarten are under one roof — just three bus stops from home. “Otherwise I would never get to work on time due to traffic jams and unreliable buses,” says Eichberger.
Changing schools would put the family in trouble
Her eldest son is already in primary school, the eldest daughter should follow in the fall and passed the aptitude test with flying colours. But then the shock: the schools in the north of the city are too full. Eichberger’s daughter could not attend Gnigler School, she would have to be enrolled elsewhere. “But this school is in a different direction. It doesn’t have a kindergarten,” says Eichberger.
The magistrate then suggested that the four children be placed in the south of the city. But that would mean taking a nine-year-old out of his social circle for his senior year of primary school. “Moreover, that would only be half possible if you had a car and no traffic jams. Afternoon care is not guaranteed,” said the disappointed mother. Her part-time job is now on the line. But she needs the job – not least because of the huge increase in the cost of living: “My husband and I both have to work or it won’t happen.”
“I don’t see that in the 21st century I should be sent to the stove because of poor planning by the city of Salzburg and that we should have existential anxieties,” Eichberger said angrily.
Source: Krone
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