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Will the next year of exams in Thuringia also benefit from a »mitigation regulation«?
High school graduates in Thuringia in spring 2020
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Closed schools, distance learning, quarantine: Because the coronavirus has messed up everyday school life in recent weeks and months, Thuringia's Minister of Education Helmut Holter (left) can imagine easier exams at the end of the school year.
"We are now using exams and class work to ascertain the level of learning among the students," said Holter of the German Press Agency.
At the beginning of the second half of the school year in February there will be a "clear announcement" from his ministry as to how the exams will continue.
As a precaution, the Abitur exams in Thuringia were postponed back in the summer, said Holter.
Originally, for example, the math graduation should be written on May 4th;
now May 28 is the new date.
Other federal states such as Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have already postponed exam dates for spring 2021 or announced additional days of classes.
The official name of the administrative act with which the Thuringian Ministry of Education relieved the Abitur exams in the course of the shutdown in the spring is called the »Mitigation Regulation«.
Holter confirmed that a working group is now looking at the subject again.
The head of the Thuringian Teachers Association, Rolf Busch, welcomed the approach.
"Only what has been dealt with can be checked," said Busch, who is also the vice-head of the Federal Association of Education and Training (VBE).
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