German schools are badly affected by the Corona crisis. Now the ministers of culture have discussed how to proceed with the school openings.
- In the Corona * crisis, thousands of students in Germany are waiting for the end of their forced vacation .
- Now the ministers of culture should create a common concept for the restart.
- Federal Minister of Education Karliczek advocated Saturday classes.
- Here are basic facts * about the corona virus and our guide through reporting *. Also: current case numbers as a card *. The most important thing about the topic is also on our brand new Facebook page Corona News.
Update, April 28, 1:51 pm: Now the chairperson of the Conference of Ministers of Education, Dr. Stefanie Hubig , presented the main results of the consultations in a press conference. "It will no longer be possible to have regular lessons before the summer holidays ," announced Hubig. However, should any students before the summer holidays, days or weeks of classroom-based instruction in the schools to participate can.
Corona Crisis: Infection events are decisive when it comes to school openings
In the further course of school openings, the infection process is decisive , emphasized Hubig. The health protection of students, teachers and other stakeholders is the top priority, even if the right to education is also a very important asset. The Minister of Education also emphasized that a good integration of digital learning and face-to-face teaching is necessary . Students in need should be equipped with the technical equipment necessary for digital learning.
During the deliberations, the ministers of culture developed a framework for the gradual reopening of schools , which among other things is dedicated to the organization of digital learning, the organization of school visits according to the new requirements and the transport of students to school. This framework concept will now be presented to the Prime Ministers of the federal states before it is published.
Corona crisis: Some teachers are criticized for their lack of commitment
Update, April 28, 1:47 pm: In a few minutes, Dr. Stefanie Hubig , Chair of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Education Minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, will present the results of the consultations of the Ministers of Education on further steps in the school openings. Previously, there was criticism of how some teachers deal with the current situation . "Some teachers sent tasks by email, some just wrote that there was something on the Internet, others did not respond at all," said a student from a high school in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia to the world on Sunday .
It is currently taking revenge that teachers in many countries have never been obliged to undertake further training in digital teaching formats. It is to be hoped that the current openings in schools will not result in a renewed increase in the number of infections, so that as many students as possible can at least partially return to school as soon as possible.
Corona crisis: School senator does not expect normal classes before summer vacation
Update, April 28, 9:57: A return to normal classes before summer vacation includes the Hamburg school Senator Ties Rabe (SPD) clearly from . That is the only thing that can currently be guaranteed, the SPD politician told NDR Info before the further consultation of the ministers of culture planned for Tuesday on a common concept for the gradual opening of schools.
Learning from home means that students, parents and teachers are expected to do a lot, said the Hamburg Senator. Therefore, as soon as possible, all grades should be able to go to school at least once a week . There they could sift through materials and get tips for learning at home. This is important from an educational point of view, emphasized Rabe.
After Rabe's assessment is remote teaching but learning even after the summer holidays integral part of his. "That is why we have to do everything possible to organize this completely new field, into which we have now been pushed very stormily, to apply quality criteria and to give the teachers, students and parents a tailwind," said the SPD politician.
Corona crisis: Ministers of Culture discuss how to proceed with school openings
Update, April 28, 6:50 am: The culture ministers of the federal states want to agree today on a concept for the further opening of the schools in the Corona crisis. Among other things, it is about how lessons can be resumed under special hygiene and protective measures for further years. At noon (1.45 p.m.), the chair of the Conference of Ministers of Education , the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Education Stefanie Hubig (SPD), wants to comment on the concept in Mainz.
Most federal states plan to open another partial school on May 4th. First of all, the classes should return to the course and classrooms that are to be examined in the coming school year. According to the plans, the oldest elementary school students are expected to start again in most countries. In almost all federal states, the first pupils have returned to the classrooms since the beginning of last week, but only the final classes - for exams or exam preparation .
At a conference call on Monday (April 27) , the Ministers of Culture had spoken for around two hours about a “framework concept for the resumption of teaching in schools” in the Corona crisis . The draft should then be revised in individual points. The concept is to be forwarded to the Ministerial Conference for the next consultation with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), which is planned for Thursday (April 30). A retirement home in Berlin had to be cleared because of the corona virus. *
Corona suspicion: Gymnasium in NRW opens - and has to close again immediately
Update of April 27, 10:34 p.m .: This Tuesday , the ministers of culture of the federal states want to agree on a concept for the gradual further opening of schools . This was announced on Monday evening by a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Education Stefanie Hubig (SPD) is currently chairing the Conference of Ministers of Education.
Update of April 27, 6.41 p.m .: Family Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD) has again spoken out against a too long closure of daycare centers in the corona pandemic. "Children and their families need to be more in focus when we talk about a gradual return to a little more normality," the SPD politician said according to the editorial network in Germany.
Croona crisis: Flat-rate closure of daycare centers cannot be the answer, says Giffey
A flat-rate closure of daycare centers for over 80 percent of children by the summer vacation could not be the answer . Giffey argued that a month in a kindergarten child's life and development meant an incredibly long time. “If daycare centers are not accessible to children for months, this is a time that cannot be made up for again. Digital learning is also no alternative for smaller children . However, Giffey also admitted that the pandemic could not predict exact schedules for individual opening levels.
According to the North Rhine-Westphalian family minister Joachim Stamp (FDP) , there will be no nationwide deadline for the return of children to day care centers. At the request of the German Press Agency, the FDP politician said that a framework should be created in which the countries can go their own pace regionally and country-specifically.
Meanwhile, the Berlin-based virologist Christian Drosten told the British Guardian that he is now receiving death threats . But at night these messages would not keep him awake, but would send emails to concerned citizens for a completely different reason.
Corona suspected high school in NRW pulls the emergency brake
Update from April 27, 3:57 p.m .: Despite severe criticism, classes in NRW for graduating classes started on Thursday (April 23). Now a high school in NRW has to close the doors again: suspected corona at the Norbert high school in Knechtsteden. One student had contact with a Covid 19 patient, the Rheinische Post reports . Preparations for the Abitur are now digital.
In Saxony, on the other hand, the partial return to schools is positive. "I am very, very satisfied with how the first week here in Saxony went," said Saxony's Minister of Culture Christian Piwarz on Monday in the ARD - "Morgenmagazin". The requirements for the Abitur tasks had not changed compared to previous years. It is therefore not an “emergency exam”.
In Bavaria , the school started again for the final classes on Monday after a break of six weeks. Further vintages will then follow in stages.
The culture ministers of the federal states advise on how to proceed. It remains to be seen whether the ministers will present a plan of how to proceed for grades for which there is as yet no date for the return.
Corona: Judgment in Hesse tilts compulsory schooling for fourth graders - culture ministers are refining a new concept
First report from April 24 :
Berlin - As was officially announced a few days ago, school operations in the Corona crisis should start all over Germany from May 4th . First, graduation classes and pupils who will take exams in the coming year will be reintegrated into everyday life. The last elementary school years , which will go to a secondary school from next autumn, should also be planned initially.
Corona crisis: Administrative Court overturns compulsory schooling for fourth graders in Hesse
On Friday but now a decision made of the Hessian Administrative Court in Kassel a stir because the compulsory education of fourth graders in Hesse override has been set. It was a rush application from a Frankfurt schoolgirl against the state's corona regulation. According to the application, the student claimed that arranging schooling for fourth graders in elementary schools created an increased risk of infection for them .
The compulsory schooling for fourth graders in Hesse is temporarily suspended in the corona pandemic. The Administrative Court in Kassel decided that. This means that the primary schools will remain closed until further notice.
- @ismailtipi (@Ismailtipi) April 24, 2020The judges saw here that schoolchildren of this grade were treated differently from schoolchildren who were prohibited from attending school until May 3 for reasons of infection protection *. The fourth graders were thus violated in their fundamental right - the court order is uncontested .
Corona crisis: Ministers of Culture are refining the concept - First federal states are slowly starting up again
But how is the further procedure now determined? The culture ministers of the federal states should submit a concept for the areas of hygiene measures, break times as well as school bus operation and group division by the end of the month . Heinz-Peter Meidinger , President of the German Teachers' Association, explains that the municipalities are expected to "retrofit toilet and washing systems, disinfection dispensers and more closely-timed cleaning cycles". There are exceptions for final classes, which may take exams and exam preparations before the beginning of May under strict conditions.
Berlin, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein started this already on Monday (April 20). To be more precise, Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia started the important exam preparations, while Berlin, Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein already gave the starting signal for the Abitur exams . A few days later, other federal states will follow suit, others will wait until early May. Bavaria , the most affected federal state, should only gradually open schools again on May 11th, thus further expanding its school-free time.
Corona crisis: Minister of Education Karliczek for Saturday lessons - and against a summer vacation cut
What will everyday school life look like in the Corona crisis *? Federal Minister of Education Anja Karliczek spoke in an interview with the mirror for a mouth protection obligation * and would like to introduce it from the first class. The minister is also not averse to a model that would also include Saturday classes . School weeks could have six days and groups could take part in lessons every two days. Karliczek was reluctant to shorten the summer vacation .
Does Karliczek know how first-graders behave? The mask is gone at the latest at breakfast break.
Where is the demand for Saturday classes when #teacher shortage cancels so much? In addition, most students do homework. At home.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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