Special school (Netherlands)

Particular education is not to be confused with "speciaal onderwijs", which refers to schools specialized to deal with physical and/or learning disabilities.

[4] They are therefore also distinct from private schools—of which there are a small but increasing number in the country[5]—which get no subsidies and can charge market tuition.

[2] Special schools teach from a certain direction, which is a religious or philosophical belief.

[6] The distinction between particular and public education arose from the hugely influential school struggle, which dominated Dutch politics from the mid-19th century until the Pacification of 1917, when public and religious schools were granted equal rights to government funding under article 23 of the Dutch constitution.

[7][8] Since the post-World War II decline of the pillarization of Dutch society along ideological lines, and the rapid secularization of Dutch society, government funding of particular schools has in recent years become a topic of debate once again, with several political parties calling for an amendment or revoking of article 23 of the constitution.