education
School events such as ski courses or ski days have been possible again since Monday. When this became known a few days ago, according to the Education Directorate, there was a “positive wildfire”. Some classes would have dropped out of ski courses for the third year in a row.
21.02.2022 05.16
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There are already a few school ski days this week. But because of the lead time, most of the one-week school ski courses are not planned until March. According to ecoplus Alpin, a state-owned GmbH that operates five ski areas in Lower Austria, there were no events with around 60,000 schoolchildren due to CoV this winter season.
The pandemic thwarted many school events. To be on the safe side, many only planned individual ski days instead of a ski course, postponed winter sports weeks to March or organized summer sports weeks instead. In order to be able to hold school ski courses, the schools must submit a Covid-19 prevention concept. In addition, the students are tested just as often during the winter sports weeks as in class, according to the education department.
Physical education on the ski slope
According to ecoplus Alpine Managing Director Markus Redl, there have been school classes who have been skiing in recent weeks. It was a “dislocated lesson”. The lessons did not take place in the classroom, but on the slopes. Therefore, strictly speaking, it was not a school event. Ski days or winter sports weeks have only been possible again without this bypass since Monday.
“It makes sense in the interests of young winter sports enthusiasts, the sporting activities of our young people and also from the economic considerations of numerous bus companies, ski rental companies and ski schools that the schoolchildren should be able to have positive contacts with snow sports in the coming weeks,” emphasized Jochen Danninger, State Councilor for Sports, and State Councilor for Education Christiane Teschl-Hofmeister (both ÖVP) in a joint broadcast.
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