No inventory of social internships
Outgoing State Secretary Dekker does not consider it necessary to make an inventory of the reasons why secondary schools do or do not offer social internships.
That writes Dekker in a letter to the House of Representatives. The social internship was completed in 2011 legally required for all secondary school students. They had to do an internship in order to be socially involved and because it is good for personal development. In 2014, the social internship was abolished again.
Dekker reports to the House of Representatives that the social internship still exists in two-thirds of the schools. Schools that abolished the internship did so because of budget, manpower or time.
According to the State Secretary, it is not necessary to investigate why schools do or do not offer social internships. The Chamber insisted on this. It is a school decision. In particular, Dekker believes that schools should design citizenship education in a coherent and school-wide manner.
