Why Hutterite Children Have to Leave School So Early

Every child on a Hutterite colony goes to two schools every weekday, one in German and one in English, and at fifteen both of them end on the same day. I'm Andreas Wurz, and I keep the books on a Hutterite colony in southern Alberta. In this video: how a colony school actually works, who builds it, who teaches in it and what is left out; why the German school sits before and after the English one; why school ends at fifteen, which is not the reason most people assume; who decides when a child gets more; and what that early ending costs, including what it cost me. Sources - Palliser Regional Schools, first-time Hutterite colony teacher orientation: https://www.pallisersd.ab.ca/about-us/news/post/first-time-hutterite-colony-teachers-prepared-for-the-challenges - Foothills School Division, Hutterite Colony Schools: https://foothillsschooldivision.ca/page/14078/hutterite-colony-schools - Battle River School Division, Administrative Procedure 201, Hutterite Colony Schools: https://brsd.ab.ca/download/206942 - Horizon School Division, Policy EAF, Hutterite Colony Schools: https://horizon.ab.ca/download/402380 - Robert M. Findlay, Hutterite Education: Teacher Perceptions of Student Performance, University of Lethbridge (1994): https://opus.uleth.ca/handle/10133/1162 - Mary Ann Zehr, "A World Apart," Education Week (March 2000): https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/a-world-apart/2000/03 About the narrator: Andreas Wurz is a composite character. His voice and image are AI-generated. The facts in this video come from the sources above.