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NRW: In the coldest classroom it was minus 0.3 degrees

2022-05-24T17:53:29.496Z


Learning below freezing: Last winter, students in Bochum experienced sub-zero temperatures in their classroom. Now there was an anti-prize for state parenthood.


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Carbon dioxide and temperature measurement in the Bochum Matthias Claudius comprehensive school

Photo: LEIS NRW / Private

A comprehensive school in Bochum receives the anti-prize for the coldest class in North Rhine-Westphalia - offered by the state parents' association of the integrated schools in NRW (LEIS) as a protest against the corona measures of the school ministry.

"The Matthias Claudius Comprehensive School took first place in the competition, second and third place went to the Bockmühle Comprehensive School in Essen and the Kopernikus School in Lippstadt," said Stephie Helder-Notzon, Deputy Chairwoman of LEIS.

Parents had repeatedly criticized the lack of air purifiers in the classes and accused NRW School Minister Yvonne Gebauer (FDP) of inaction in the corona crisis.

Last winter, the parents' representatives then called for photos of temperature measurements in school classes to be submitted - as a protest against the ministry, whose protection concept against infection was limited to regular forced ventilation for a long time.

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"One of our students then photographed the display of the carbon dioxide test device," says Holger Jeppel, head of the Matthias Claudius School.

However, the minus 0.3 degrees displayed were "fortunately" not permanent temperatures in the interior, but were caused by the fact that the measuring device was placed directly at the window when the room was aired out.

"Neither energetically nor didactically particularly clever"

Nevertheless, from his point of view, the protests of the young people are justified, says Jeppel: "Opening the window every 15 or 20 minutes is not particularly smart, neither in terms of energy nor didactics." .

In any case, he does not have the impression that the country and schools are now better prepared for the next Corona autumn than a year ago.

In the opinion of the German Teachers' Association, urgent preparations for the lessons in autumn should now be made in view of the corona pandemic.

"Politicians are not doing their homework on the topic of pandemics and schools," said association president Heinz-Peter Meidinger to the editorial network Germany.

He called for everything to be done to ensure that the schools are not closed again in the fall.

"At the latest, however, the schools must be equipped and prepared in such a way that distance learning definitely works," said Meidinger.

He complained that the federal states lacked a legal basis for compulsory masks in schools.

In his opinion, masks could be “a decisive factor” in a possible autumn corona wave in order to keep schools open.

"The federal government must therefore quickly adapt the Infection Protection Act again," Meidinger demanded.

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Source: spiegel

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