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Middelbare Technische School (Haarlem)

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Middelbare Technische School
Location
Verspronckweg, Haarlem, Netherlands
Information
TypePublic[1] Vocational school
Mottolast housed Sterren College Haarlem
Established1919
Staff82
Number of students715
Websitehttp://www.sterrencollegehaarlem.nl

The Middelbare Technische School is a former MTS middelbare school on the Verspronckweg, Haarlem, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest public vocational schools in Haarlem, built as a boys school in 1919, which grew out of the first Ambachtsschool that was located on the Kamperstraat.[2] It currently houses one of the locations of the Sterren College.

History

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This school that had such a difficult time during World War II because National Socialists ran it.[clarification needed] After the war, it became the "Hoger Technische School" (HTS), and the young students were taught how to fix trams, trains, and airplanes.[2] On the Indonesian island Flores, many technical achievements were realized after being drawn and fabricated in this school.[2]

In 2010 the school and its history were one of the subjects at the Historisch Museum Haarlem's exhibition "Leren voor het Leven" (learning for life), a compilation of materials from various vocational schools in the Haarlem area.

Sterren College

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The Sterren College school offers vmbo schooling today at a new location on the Badminton pad in Haarlem.[clarification needed]

References

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  1. ^ A public (openbare) school in the Netherlands is a school which receives only state funding, as opposed to special schools, which often receive religious funding too. See also: Schoolstrijd
  2. ^ a b c Deugd boven geweld, Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995, edited by Gineke van der Ree-Scholtens, 1995, ISBN 90-6550-504-0, p555
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