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Germany and K-12

You might have a lot of "fun" with map markers about educational stuff, because you'll see a lot of our infamous German compound nouns without spaces. In the following I'll show you the most common ones for our K-12. Read the full words, not only the beginning or the end, and search for the following parts:

• schul / schule (=school)
• kind / kinder (= child/children)
• Gymnasium
• KiTa

Please keep these 4 words/abbreviations in mind. If you find these, look at the syllables around them, then take the time to scroll through the following lists to evaluate it finally.

Daycares

Not everything with the word "kinder" in it is ineligible, but K-12 are:

• Kindergarten,
• Kindertagesstätte (or short: KiTa),
• Kinderkrippe

Schools

This is a bit confusing, because the literal translation of school is "Schule" .... and we use this word sometimes a bit different. So please double check with the lists below.

Schools often have a namesake person. In that case it's not one single large compound noun, but something with two "-" as delimiters in it. For example this one:

Two delimiters -> school with namesake person.

In this case it's easy, because the word "gymnasium" is always K12.

If ithe marker would have been Carl-Zeiss-Schule it could be primary school, high school or college (all K12) but it could be adult education, too. Adult education stuff is not K12 and therefore eligible. So you need to look at the schools website.

The K-12 school keywords:

• Vorschule (a special type of daycare, preschool)
• Grundschule (primary school)
• Gymnasium (highschool + college)
• Oberschule, Mittelschule, Realschule, Hauptschule, Gesamtschule (different types of highschools, lots of names because of the federal structure of our education system)
• Ganztagsschule (can be any type of school; the special thing of them is, that they offer additional activities in the afternoon)
• Waldorfschule, Montessorischule, Jenaplanschule (K12 schools with alternative, non-autoritarian teaching concepts)

Other words with "Schule":

• Baumschule (= tree farm )
• Fahrschule (= driving school)
• Tanzschule (= dance school / dance studio)
• Musikschule (music school -> usually not K-12, in very rare cases there are specialized highschools with additional music education, that could be labeled that way)
• Hochschule (specialized university)
• Volkshochschule (adult education, there you can upgrade your high school diploma or learn additional languages; our organized community considers these to be eligible)
• Berufsschule, Berufsfachschule, Fachschule (something like a trade school ..... If you leave the highschool and start vocational education, then it's in most cases a bipartite system: 50% of your job training happens at your future employing business, 50% of the job training happens in lessons in such a type of school. It's not K12 and all pupils there are usually 16+y/o. The opinion of our community: these type of school itself is usually not eligible, but valid candidates like sculptures or murals on the grounds of these school are usually accepted.)
• Schulzentrum, Schulungszentrum (a place with different kinds of schools nearby; look for additional markers and other keywords to evaluate this .... )
• Schulamt (not a school per se -> education authority, supervisory school authority)
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One confusing thing, that you might encounter, are historical school buildings, that arent school anymore. You won't encounter them as markers, but maybe in the submission texts. Don't be suspicious about that. Even if the buildings have totally different usages now, local people call them still school decades later. In most cases these examples are in very rural area and they are not very large. So this size or even smaller:

(this one was a primary school, and now it's used as a club house of the village9