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Entrance area of the Anna Lindh School in Berlin-Wedding: The entire main building is closed due to mold
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The staff at Berlin's Anna Lindh School, which was closed because of mold, wrote a fire letter to those responsible for politics "after weeks of additional workload, exhaustion and uncertainty."
In it they denounce the conditions under which "pedagogically meaningful lessons that start with the needs of the children" are not possible.
"We're exhausted."
The focal point school in the Wedding district of Berlin has been in a state of emergency for weeks.
The school building is so badly infested with mold that it was no longer open to classes after the summer holidays.
The approximately 700 elementary school students initially had to take part in distance learning from home until the lessons could be organized in alternative rooms.
Years 3 to 6 have moved to the former Air Berlin headquarters and will be taken by shuttle bus from the old location to the alternative quarters around four kilometers away.
The lower classes are accommodated in containers and in the hoard.
In the fire letter, the teachers criticize that they have to teach "without material in temporary rooms", "between bulky waste and moving boxes".
There is a lack of basics such as paper, the teaching material is "stored in the mold wing and waiting for fine cleaning".
»The teachers do an extraordinary job«
Understandably, many parents no longer support the situation, the letter goes on to say: around 120 children have already been deregistered.
The school authorities then called for the shrunken classes to be merged.
The pedagogues criticize that "in addition to the already great burden, children now also have to orientate themselves in a new class group".
When asked by SPIEGEL, district councilor Stefanie Remlinger, who was addressed in the fire letter, has so far not commented on the allegations.
The press office of the Senate Administration of the Berlin Senator for Education, who was also contacted, made it clear that she was not responsible, but the Mitte district.
But she would support those responsible.
"The teachers do an extraordinary job," said the press office.
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