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Students must demand the removal of poor quality teaching in a timely manner, not after the graduation exam.

Are you dissatisfied with the quality of teaching at your school? Then you better act before it's too late. By the time you fail your final exam, it's too late. That's according to a new ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court.

Complaints and lawsuits for failure to pass the matriculation exam are relatively common in the education system. In this case, the student failed the German language final exam. As part of the review, he complained, among other things, about the poor quality of the teachers' work during his studies at the grammar school. According to him, the incorrect answers were due to the completely insufficient and inadequate teaching of German at the grammar school. In his words, the pupil's grades in that subject were above average and he believed that the teaching at the grammar school would prepare him for the school-leaving examination.

However, in that respect, the court told him that any poor quality of teaching should have been dealt with earlier, by other means and with other authorities than in the context of a judicial review of the result of the matriculation examination. According to him, the fact that someone is an excellent student with above-average results cannot affect the evaluation of his final examination either. The action was therefore ultimately dismissed by both the Municipal Court and the Supreme Administrative Court.

What do you take from this? If you are not happy with the teaching at your school, you need to act now. Cite specific faults, take up the matter with the class teacher, the guidance counsellor or the headmaster, or the Czech School Inspectorate. The final exam is simply not used to evaluate teachers.

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