The fourth graders have been going back to school for a week. Many children were initially unsettled. In the meantime, however, a new form of normality is coming - which includes some things that would have been unthinkable before Corona.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - The lessons are a bit like back in the day: the teacher stands at the front of the board and explains that the children are listening passively. Gone are the days when the girls and boys worked on the material themselves in partner or group work. Singing and sport are also no longer on the schedule, but distance rules and mask requirements. "It's different," says Heidi Dodenhöft, headmistress of the Reichersbeuern primary school. "But we have the feeling that it is possible."
Students quickly adapted to the situation
At least for a while. This is also thanks to the flexibility of the children, Dodenhöft believes. The 60-year-old is surprised at how quickly the students have adapted to the situation - even if the mood was initially depressed. “They didn't know what was in store for us,” says Dodenhöft. By now, however, the children would have gotten used to the fact that their teachers sometimes put up a mobile plexiglass when they come to their place to explain something.
The primary school on Lettenholz in Bad Tölz is also more distant than before the pandemic. "This is still irritating - for students and teachers," says head Bärbel Weixner. In the first two days after the Corona forced break, the children were significantly more reserved than usual. "But we are now noticing that something normal is returning."
Lessons start at different times
As at the Reichersbeuern primary school, the fourth and fourth classes were divided into four groups. You start teaching at different times: at 7.55 a.m. and 8.40 a.m. And like the children in Reichersbeuern, the boys and girls at the Lettenholzschule are happy to be able to go back to school - even if it is only two and a half hours a day. According to Bärbel Weixner, only two or three children keep their mouth and nose protection in class. The pupils are allowed to take off the masks on site.
Hopefully these children will benefit from the fact that the educators on the Latvian Wood will soon be wearing facial visors. "It is also more pleasant for the teachers," believes Weixner. The city of Bad Tölz makes the transparent plexiglass panes with holding devices available to the schools they want. "We are very grateful," says Weixner. Because the city is not obliged to do so. The Free State of Bavaria should actually provide protective clothing as an employer.
Rector: "You can't spread panic all the time."
Christine Janning meets the current situation with gallows humor. "At least the whole thing has a positive effect: the children can no longer ratchet up and the teachers get the material through," jokes the principal of the Jahnschule Bad Tölz. Overall, however, the situation is of course not satisfactory. Primary school in particular lives from the teacher-student relationship. And: "This strict regulation contradicts the nature of the child," says Janning, referring to the communication behavior of the little ones and their play instinct. The fourth graders were quite disciplined with the distance and hygiene regulations. "But it will be exciting when the first graders come."
Heidi Dodenhöft sees it similarly. Like Janning - and probably most of the educators - she doesn't resort to scolding when the children get too close, for example. "You can't spread panic all the time." It would be much better to calmly tell the boys and girls to keep their distance again. Distinctness as commendable social behavior - unthinkable in front of Corona.
The conversion and the fear of missing out on material do not seem to be a major concern for parents and pupils in the fourth grade - at least, that is how the school heads surveyed see it. According to them, only a handful are aiming for trial classes. But some complained that it was a lost school year. Heidi Dodenhöft sees it differently. In their view, the children learn other things. For example, more independence in homeschooling. And also dealing with digital media. "It's not a lost one, just another school year."
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