Herne (dpa / lnw) – In order to avoid full school buses, lessons at the secondary schools in Herne have started at different times since Monday. The vocational colleges start at 7.30 a.m. in the morning. This was followed by the lower grades at 8:00 a.m. and finally the middle school at 8:45 a.m., as a city spokeswoman said. The timetables have been reorganized accordingly. All 17 secondary schools in the city took part. The measure is intended to help reduce the risk of corona infection. Herne is one of the cities with the highest number of infections in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the city with 156,000 inhabitants, there were 292.1 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days, according to the State Health Center.
According to earlier information, the city assumes that the rectification in the morning will roughly halve the number of students per school bus. According to its own information, Herne is the first city in North Rhine-Westphalia to introduce staggered lessons across the board. The regulation should initially apply until the Easter holidays in 2021.
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