Corona cry for help from Bavarian schools - "Teachers and school administrators at the limit"

Corona, staff shortages, grumpy parents - teachers at elementary and middle schools in Bavaria report a variety of problems three weeks after the start of school.

The frustration is great.

• The rules in the course of the

  Corona measures

  pose problems for many schools in Bavaria.

• Teachers complain about the

  additional burden

  , resort to medication - and doubt whether it is justified.

• There is also another problem: there is a

  shortage of staff in

  elementary and middle schools

  .

Munich - "At the moment we often see each other on the edge or at the end of our strength and do not receive any support from our highest employer" - so it is in a letter that the chairwoman of a staff council in a district in Upper Bavaria wrote to the main staff council in the Ministry of Education.

The four-page letter is in our newspaper.

It illustrates the

currently struggling with.

"Already now, in the third week of school, teachers and school administrators are at their limit," complains the staff councilor.

She reports that teachers are taking medication to cope with the "current pressures".

In particular, several corona rules * raise questions from the teachers' point of view.

In the case of substitution, the children * in one class have often been divided between several others.

That is now forbidden.

But how else can you ensure supervision? Asks the teacher.

The sense of the separation is questionable anyway, since the students in the after-school care center, in private and on the way to school “mix” and all efforts to keep their distance are “thwarted”.

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Also unclear: the ventilation concept for the winter months.

Five to ten minutes of cross ventilation cools the rooms down considerably, which is “unreasonable”, complains the teacher.

There are worries if the number of

soars again and some of the classes have to do homeschooling.

Who should give distance learning “if the teacher is active in face-to-face lessons?” And she warns that emergency care during the holidays is “by no means affordable”.

However, she is afraid of encountering little understanding.

This is an extreme burden for teachers, as they are "exposed to permanent control by parents".

For the main staff council in the Ministry of Education, Gerd Nitschke, such complaints are no surprise.

"There are increasing reports from teachers who simply can no longer", he reports.

There are numerous inconsistencies.

Middle school students should drive to career orientation camps, although school

camps are prohibited

during the

*.

The incoming letters are currently being evaluated, and Nitschke wants to address the problems in the ministry before the autumn break.

The

is also discussed in the letter.

For years, the Ministry of Culture has been struggling with shortages in the supply of teachers.

Most recently, 1,400 people were missing.

This is slowly affecting the districts of the school authorities.

The Erding Education Authority confirms “gaps” in the provision of teachers.

There are 20 full-time and 15 part-time workers as mobile reserves, that is to say as “jumpers” if a teacher falls ill somewhere in the district.

17 of the teachers are already scheduled, ten of them due to the pandemic.

The need in one school was so great that consideration was given to combining all second grades and teaching them through a teacher with a microphone in the gym.

It didn't come to that.

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The

- but only a small one.

Since the beginning of school, the Ministry has allowed the use of temporary workers in the class who only need to have completed a university degree, but not a teaching degree.

You should teach where a teacher has to stay at home due to Corona, but still has a service obligation.

Then he manages the class with the team teacher from home.

In the Fürstenfeldbruck school authority, five such temporary workers were found, reports school board member Bettina Betz.

Among them are a lawyer and a physicist, both now teaching a middle school class.

The effort is considerable, says Betz.

“We are constantly conducting job interviews,” some only want part-time, others drop out.

In the letter from the staff councilor from Upper Bavaria, the team teachers are rated as being of no help.

They are unskilled and need to be looked after.

Instead, she called for the shortage of staff and the "expected restrictions on schooling for children" to be "honestly communicated in public".

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