The Ministry of Culture still officially adheres to the line that all schools will reopen on April 20. Nobody believes that this is really the case.
- After the forced break due to the corona virus *, it is currently still unclear when schools in Bavaria can open again.
- Those responsible are now considering having final classes start again first.
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Munich / Bruckmühl - what's next with the schools? You will only know more after Easter. Chancellor Angela Merkel will report on the Corona crisis on Tuesday, after which the Prime Ministers and Ministers of Education will advise. Until then there has been silence. Bavaria's Minister of Culture Michael Piazolo has already announced that he can imagine a "step-by-step plan" - there is nothing more to say now, explains a spokesman.
Corona virus: restart after forced break - when can schools open again?
Schools, parents and pupils are urgently waiting for a signal. For now, everyone is making their own plans. For secondary schools, he can imagine a “step-by-step plan”, according to which the final students in grade 10 begin - perhaps from April 27, says the chairman of the junior high school teachers' association, Jürgen Böhm. For Michael Schwägerl from the Bavarian Association of Philologists, a complete opening of the schools on April 20 is “inconceivable”, but a gradual opening with a lead time and thorough planning is possible.
Walter Baier, headmaster in Bruckmühl
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Saxony announced on Thursday that it will reopen the schools for the final classes - and only for these. Such a model is also conceivable in Bavaria for Walter Baier, head of the Bavarian Association of Directors . He has already worked out a plan for his high school in Bruckmühl (district of Rosenheim). There are 84 pupils in the 12th grade. "The school opening could work for them from April 20," says Baier. Courses could be divided, depending on the size of the classrooms, ten to a maximum of twelve students should sit in one room. That would be, "our house is empty".
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However, mouth-nose protection is necessary - teachers should distribute the masks at the entrance. "But we don't have them yet." Baier's colleague Heinz-Peter Meidinger from Deggendorf also holds high school examinations from May 20 - currently the official date - as feasible if the number of infections allows it. The students in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate had already written their high school diploma, and Bavaria could not wait indefinitely.
There are no signals yet for primary schools. The German Mayor of Leipzig, Mayor of Leipzig Burkhard Jung (SPD), talked about opening primary schools and daycare centers, but it is considered unlikely. But time is of the essence here as well: A third of the students spent less than 15 hours a week at school during school closings, according to the Institute for Education Management and Economics of Education at the University of Teacher Education Zug in the "School Barometer" for Germany, Austria and Switzerland found. "This group worries us," said study director Prof. Stephan Huber.
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