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More time to bake cookies thanks to early vacation?
Not everyone can look forward to that.
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After the North Rhine-Westphalian state government announced that it wanted to bring the Christmas holidays forward, criticism of the plan grew.
Parents who still have to work on the 21st and 22nd have a problem, says the Education and Science Union (GEW).
"From the point of view of the families, the measure can only make sense if the care of the children is ensured and if they really use the time as early quarantine in order to be as infection-free as possible for Christmas," said the GEW state chairman Maike Finnern.
Nicola Stroop, board member of the Association of Single Mothers and Fathers in North Rhine-Westphalia, became even clearer: "The announcement by North Rhine-Westphalia School Minister Yvonne Gebauer that the Christmas holidays will be brought forward is bad news for single parents."
Stroop demanded: "School closings must be structurally compensated, either through a statutory right to emergency care or through financial compensation payments such as Corona parental allowance."
Gebauer (FDP) announced on Wednesday evening that there would be no school lessons on December 21 and 22.
The decision should help to give the families the most carefree Christmas possible.
Because of the weekend, Friday, December 18, is the last day of school in NRW this year.
In other federal states, in which the holidays also only start on the 23rd, a general advance is not yet planned.
In
Baden-Württemberg
, Minister of Culture Susanne Eisenmann (CDU) wants to make the decision the responsibility of the schools and called on them to extend the Christmas holidays by two days forward with flexible holidays.
"That is certainly a clever approach, for which there is a lot," said Eisenmann of the "Südwest Presse".
Saxony's
Minister of Education, Christian Piwarz (CDU), however, said: "We will then have a real support problem."
Families have now completed their plans for the year and made their vacation plans accordingly.
Lower Saxony
does not think of a preference.
There would then be only five days between the last day of school and Christmas Eve - less than the incubation period of SARS-CoV-2 according to current knowledge.
"We can't justify sending the message of bogus security," said a ministry spokeswoman.
However, if the state of knowledge changes, this should not be ruled out.
Also in
Bremen
The extension of the vacation is currently not an issue, as a spokeswoman for the school authority made clear.
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