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In the coming weeks, pupils in the final classes in Saxony should go back to school.
The state gives them, the teachers and the educational staff of the schools the opportunity to be tested for Corona free of charge.
The idea behind it is good, but the tests should not take place at every school concerned - but staggered in time at selected schools.
A blog by the Ministry of Education states: “To this end, clusters were formed with the other schools.
So every school knows its test school.
In some cases the schools are visited by mobile test teams. "
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It goes on to say: »In the event that a special bus is required to transport the students to the school where the tests are carried out, there are no additional costs for the parents or adult students.
The pupils are accompanied by teachers. «The pupils drive together with the teachers to the schools at which tests are carried out.
There is resistance to this on Twitter.
"I hope the parents don't take part in the bullshit," wrote one user.
"Who came up with something so sick?" Writes another.
The lack of understanding is also reflected in the comments on the entry on the ministry's blog, for example one parent representative writes: “In principle, I think this campaign is very good.
However, the implementation is very poor in my opinion.
The pupils of the Oberschule Wilsdruff (final classes) should be on 19.1.
all take the bus to Freital and then get tested there.
This clearly contradicts the requirement to relieve local public transport and to keep your distance.
The risk of infection on the way there is clearly given and increased. "
In the Ministry of Education you don't see it that closely: "In the cities, the pupils take public transport to the test schools and in the countryside there will be extra buses," said a speaker from the Ministry of Education to SPIEGEL.
In the country, the students would drive to school in classes in the buses every day.
Roman Schulz, spokesman for the State Office for Education and Schools, says that there was no other way to do it so quickly and on such a scale.
About 50,000 people would be tested in 100 schools.
Of course, this is linked to exercise, and students have to go to other schools for the tests.
But there is a precise schedule.
The tests could not have been sent to the schools either: "We need medical staff who can carry them out," says Schulz.
At the test schools, everyone was provided with protective equipment.
"We couldn't have simply put a box with glasses and suits at hundreds of schools in Saxony."
Every country is a little different
Berlin also wants to enable comprehensive rapid tests in the capital's schools.
Education Senator Sandra Scheers told the Tagesspiegel.
Several providers of rapid tests have already been looked at and a concept is to be drawn up.
In Saxony-Anhalt, the state distributed tens of thousands of quick tests to teachers and other school staff last week and published a tutorial on how the MDR reports.
Employees should get tested, although schools in the country remain largely closed.
Teachers, educational staff, school social workers, caretakers and secretaries from over 900 state and private schools are invited to take the test.
In December, the federal government announced that daycare centers and schools could in principle obtain and use rapid tests independently.
“Teachers will be able to test themselves.
And if necessary, the school authorities can carry out tests on site with trained staff, ”said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), as can be read on the website of the federal government.
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