Corona measures in school: federal states change vacation dates - and parents are upset

With a view to Christmas and New Year's Eve, the country leaders decide on new corona measures.

It is also about schools.

Different rules are emerging here.

• In Germany, the restrictions will be tightened in the last weeks of 2020.

• Despite the rising number of corona infections, the country leaders continue to rely on classroom teaching.

• More and more federal states are taking action on the topic of Christmas holidays.

Update from November 24th, 3:25 p.m.:

Surprisingly, Lower Saxony now also prefers the Christmas holidays.

As a spokeswoman for

confirmed, December 18 will be the last day of school before the holidays, as in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria.

That had previously sounded very different from the cabinet (see first report).

But the

may have

generated enough persuasive power.

The regulation was

not particularly well received by

parents, especially in the

.

Because now many

people are wondering

how the care of the children should be done during the Christmas week.

It is questionable whether this point has been thought through to the end.

There was already

resentment here

when the

.

First report on November 24th:

Munich - The disaster in the spring was a deterrent.

When, through

for millions of children and young people, the

evident.

That is why the country leaders made a

decision

at the beginning of the

: This time

remain

open.

Virtually at any price.

Or to go back to a sentence from CSU boss

from the early phase of the

: Whatever it takes.

So any

should be

avoided.

And the often inadequate technical equipment for

forgotten.

But the

problems

caused by

have long since ceased to be

discussed away.

Whole classes have to be

because of individual infections

.

Absences of teachers - as before the Corona outbreak - result in a number of canceled classes.

Corona rules in schools: Müller promotes face-to-face teaching - especially for younger people

This does not result in any rethinking.

Berlin's mayor

(SPD) told the

-Morgenmagazin once more: "We want, as far as it goes, the

maintained." Yet his attention primarily go toward the lower volumes because in these lessons also from

is particularly important.

For the older students, a combination of

could also be

offered.

Experts have been arguing for months

whether educational institutions really should be among the

.

A clear no to this question has not yet been heard.

One thing is certain: the

offers enough material for discussion.

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Corona measures in schools: NRW and Bavaria start the Christmas holidays earlier

While the 16 country heads are

now following a uniform line

for many

, a

in terms of dealing with the school

.

was the first federal state to decide to bring the start of the

forward.

suit.

Here, too, December 18th will be the last day of school of the year.

Provincial father Söder promises that the "

(...) will be significantly reduced by the almost one-week waiting period between school lessons and Christmas" and that "families

can

way".

So there is

that the children and young people will stay at home from December 19th.

It is well known that the private household has long been identified as a

source of

that

should not be underestimated

.

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Early in the Christmas holidays or not?

Different decisions are made from state to state.

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Corona rules in German schools: Other federal states criticize Laschet and Söder's approach

Meanwhile,

do not want to follow

the path of the two most populous states

.

Out of

, because the Saxon minister of education Christian Piwarz (CDU) fears "a veritable childcare problem".

In Lower Saxony, the move is

criticized

in the west and south-east of the Federal Republic as a

.

A clear accusation towards Armin Laschet and Söder.

New trouble seems to be brewing here.

In

, the students would still be taught until December 22, according to the current status.

The green-black government in the south-west propagates flexibility: Education Minister Susanne Eisenmann (CDU) wants to leave it to the schools themselves

to extend

the Christmas

by two days

with

.

It is not yet known when Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia will make up for the two canceled teaching days.

The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg

caused astonishment

, according to which the

would be extended nationwide.

The prime ministers had agreed on this in talks - only Bremen was not going along.

The

would create a stretch of five to six days until Christmas Eve, which could be used to minimize contacts.

If everyone really stayed at home.

The Green politician spoke of a "whole (n)

".

Corona rules in schools: Mask requirement in class, probably from 7th grade onwards

hope for a

little more uniformity in the matter of

: This should

Germany for all students from the 7th grade.

There are exceptions for regions that have a

.

Even

may be exempted from the regulation.

The

even plead for a mask requirement across all age groups.

Which brings us back to a common approach throughout the state.

The proposed test strategy stipulates that every class

should be

for

the first case of Corona

.

The same applies to the

concerned

.

On the fifth day of this isolation, she would

undergo

tests; if the results were negative

, she would

go back to school.

to be made available

by the federal government

.

In the meantime,

and international exchanges should remain prohibited - which

only makes sense in

view of the

all over Germany

and the

.

In addition, it is recommended

to stagger

the start of

to straighten out school traffic.

Then there might also be a chance

to keep a

sufficient

on

the buses

.

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