Status: December 17th, 2020 6:17 p.m.
What will happen to the schools after the Christmas break? This is the question parents, teachers and students ask. Education Minister Prien now made it clear: A possible opening depends on the infection process.
There are three possible scenarios that Minister Karin Prien (CDU) describes after the end of the Christmas holidays. If the infection situation does not allow a return to classroom teaching from January 11th, then the schools would have to continue distance teaching as long as the situation requires it. Emergency care offers would then have to be ensured. There could be exceptions for graduating classes. If, on the other hand, the infection rate has developed positively as a result of the lockdown, presence operations could be resumed for all age groups, said Prien. If the lockdown was only partially successful – even if it only affects individual regions – different forms of teaching would have to be implemented. A hybrid form.
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Criticism from the teachers’ union
That is not enough for the GEW teachers’ union. Her spokesman Bernd Schauer told NDR Schleswig-Holstein that the minister would have to name clear incidence values from which face-to-face or distance teaching should take place. Regional differences in the country should be taken into account and health protection should be in the foreground.
GEW: Schools do not have corona-free zones
“But politics must not be guided by the principle of hope alone. The Minister of Education must finally take the expertise of the Robert Koch Institute from last summer seriously. With an incidence value of 50, school operations must be switched to alternating lessons or hybrid models, if there is an incidence value from 100 to distance teaching and emergency care. We won’t get through the next month with non-binding statements, “says GEW state chairwoman Astrid Henke. In her opinion, Prien has been misjudged that schools are corona-free zones. “That’s not the way we all know now.” She demands that the minister put the health of students and teachers first in her deliberations.
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