Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – After the nationwide corona lockdown has been tightened, the education union GEW welcomes the suspension of classroom teaching and the closing of daycare centers for another week. For the openings planned in Baden-Württemberg from January 18, however, alternating lessons are necessary at all types of schools, the GEW demanded. In addition, more must be done nationwide and uniformly to protect daycare centers and schools. Teachers and educators would have to be equipped with certified FFP2 protective masks, air cleaning systems had to be procured and a mask requirement for adults in parts of the daycare centers and primary schools would have to be made.
“Between school closings and classroom instruction there is a large gray area that enables a whole range of sensible solutions,” said Monika Stein, the state chairwoman of the Education and Science Union (GEW) in Freiburg.
On Tuesday, Baden-Württemberg decided to deviate from the nationwide line and to reopen elementary schools and daycare centers from January 18, if the number of infections allowed. Most countries want to close schools by the end of January. According to the agreement of the federal and state governments, there will be no face-to-face lessons for secondary school students until the end of January, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) announced in the evening. Special regulations are possible for the graduating classes.
With an alternate model, half of the class comes to school while the other half is supposed to study at home. The model can be implemented on a daily basis as well as on a weekly basis.
In the southwest, the Christmas holidays end on Sunday for around 1.5 million students and around 130,000 teachers.
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