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Education – Erfurt – District Association criticizes Corona regulations for schools – Education

Erfurt (dpa / th) – The Thuringian District Association has criticized the Ministry of Education’s Corona concept for schools. The fact that school principals should be given more responsibility during the corona pandemic is “irresponsible,” said the President of the Thuringian District Assembly, Martina Schweinsburg (CDU), of the German press agency.

With the appropriate order, the Ministry of Education also undermines the work of the health authorities, which are technically responsible for such decisions, complained Schweinsburg. “This is where the responsibility for serious decisions is dumped on the directors and the ministry is slimming down.”

According to the order, school principals should be able to decide more independently which protective measures to take in the event of corona infections. This affects all schools in regions with fewer than 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days. In the case of a confirmed corona case, the respective school management can take measures from the yellow phased plan from Tuesday, depending on the situation on site. This also includes a mask requirement in class.

Schweinsburg criticized the Ministry for trying again to undermine the work of the health authorities, which are located in the districts and urban districts. The President referred to the Hildburghausen district, which is particularly badly affected by Corona. In the past few weeks, the ministry there initially refused to comply with District Administrator Thomas Müller’s (CDU) demand for schools to be closed.

The president said that the political will to keep the schools and kindergartens open was put over the technical considerations of the local health department. A regional lockdown has been in effect in the Hildburghausen district since Wednesday, schools and kindergartens have been closed since then. On Saturday, the corona rules were tightened there again.

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