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Corona: Söder announces the Christmas hammer in Bavaria and threatens to go it alone - court collects rule

2020-11-25T21:22:57.658Z


Söder announced today on Twitter: The Christmas holidays will start on December 18 in Bavaria. Parents are less than enthusiastic about social media. All corona news for Bavaria here in the ticker.


Söder announced today on Twitter: The Christmas holidays will start on December 18 in Bavaria.

Parents are less than enthusiastic about social media.

All corona news for Bavaria here in the ticker.

  • The Corona * crisis is forcing the state government to take further measures in Bavaria.

  • One thing is already clear: the Christmas holidays in Bavaria will start on December 18th.

    In addition,

    Markus Söder

    wants to

    tighten and extend

    the

    lockdown in Bavaria

    - with special restrictions for

    New Year's Eve.

  • You can read a detailed summary of the press conference with Minister of Education Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) on the Corona situation at Bavaria's schools and the parents' reactions to the vacation extension in the update from

  • Here in the ticker you can always read all the latest

    news about Corona in Bavaria

    around the clock.

Update from November 24, 5:28 p.m.:

An important component of

the state government's

anti-corona strategy

has been

overturned

in

court

: The Bavarian Administrative

Court

has temporarily suspended the

weekly test obligation

for

cross-border commuters

.

So far, this regulation has affected numerous

commuters

who regularly travel to the Free State for work, training or studying.

The plaintiffs were two Austrian high school students attending a school in Berchtesgadener Land.

Corona in Bavaria: Court overturns weekly test obligation for cross-border commuters - far-reaching consequences

"The suspension of the regulation has general effect," said a court spokesman, explaining the

far-reaching consequences

of


Tuesday's decision.

The two students residing in Austria had

submitted

urgent applications against Bavaria's

entry quarantine regulation

.

Until the decision in the main proceedings, they are now provisionally right.

No appeal

can be

lodged

against the decision of the court

.

This means: The

mandatory test

is no longer required with immediate effect.

But: The regulation in question is currently

limited to the end of November

.

Bavaria: Corona test obligation for cross-border commuters is no longer necessary with immediate effect

The administrative

lawyers

argued their judgment on three different levels: They saw the

legal requirements

for the ordering of a test obligation as

not

currently

fulfilled

.

They also expressed

doubts about the proportionality of

a weekly test requirement.

Apart from that, they saw the obligation to test also affect the

right of free movement

of EU citizens.



With the

obligation to test foreign cross-border commuters

, Bavaria's Prime Minister

Markus Söder

(CSU) has repeatedly justified why the borders with Austria and the Czech Republic, in contrast to the lockdown in spring, are not closed there despite the persistently high number of infections.

As a further argument, he

cited

that the

protective measures

such as distance rules and everyday

masks

now apply here and there.

As an

additional security measure

, the Free State introduced compulsory tests for commuters.

Corona lockdown in Bavaria: Söder wants stricter corona rules than other countries

1:20 p.m.:

Prime Minister Markus Söder is

currently

making a statement.

His goal for the

Prime Minister's

Conference tomorrow on the

corona lockdown: extend and tighten.

He hoped, so Söder just literally, that the current paper of the federal states will be tightened again in the conference.

Otherwise, Bavaria would single-handedly introduce stricter rules.

The hotspot strategy is to be tackled fundamentally again tomorrow.

Regarding the lockdown extension, Söder says: "There must also be real-life rules." That is why it makes perfect sense to change the rules for Christmas.

New Year's Eve worries him.

And: “The holidays must not become a new risk of infection.” Meeting with the family: yes.

But even with a view to the skiing situation, Söder definitely does not want “a second Ischgl”.

He leaves open exactly what that means for the Bavarian ski areas.

Söder in the state parliament: Lockdown will be "clearly continued as December 20".

Want to achieve further tightening for New Year's Eve, with MPs or, if necessary, for Bavaria.

Calls for hotspot strategy with alternate teaching for schools.

pic.twitter.com/hwG88JxFCy

- Christian Deutschländer (@CDeutschlaender) November 24, 2020

School ministers on the corona situation in Bavaria and the extension of the Christmas holidays - parents react

11.33 a.m.:

The press conference on the

corona situation at schools in Bavaria

has ended.

Michael Piazolo himself sums up the press conference as follows: Today he just wanted to report "Where are we?"

He has that too.

Not much more, however.

For most of the specific questions, Piazolo referred to tomorrow's conference of prime ministers or answered evasively.

Sometimes he contradicted himself.

Journalists and the opposition are already tearing up the press conference on Twitter.

Apart from that: The

face-to-face lessons

remain.

The

mask requirement

remains.

Local exceptions with increasing numbers of

corona infections

cannot be ruled out, as before.

Markus Söder *

tweeted the

only real news

this morning: The

Christmas holidays are three weeks and start on December 18th.

Actually, such a lecture for a minister of education is intellectually a declaration of bankruptcy.

I didn't understand anything either.

😭

- Anne Hübner (@AnnieMuc) November 24, 2020

Longer Christmas holidays because of Corona in Bavaria - parents shit storm on Facebook

Piazolo does not want to confirm

whether the rumors are true that this

measure is particularly popular with teachers' associations

.

What is already evident in the

social networks

in particular

:

Most parents are not very enthusiastic, many are appalled.

On

Facebook

there are sometimes real

parent shitstorms

against the decision.

Many people want to know where parents should take their vacation from.

And why the days are not simply carried out at least in distance lessons.

The

CSU mayor in Anzing (Ebersberg district), Kathrin Alte (herself a mother of two children), is also

sharply critical of the decision and receives a lot of encouragement from parents: "What is this supposed to do for the infection process, except that the infection occurs before Christmas Parents have to organize privately again?

Why doesn’t anyone actually ask working mothers and fathers how they feel about the shortened vacation?

Many no longer have a vacation ... "

Two questions that are not unjustified and that Michael Piazolo cannot answer.

The only consolation: there should be

emergency care

at the schools for the two days.

What it looks like and who can use it still has to be clarified.

11.24 a.m.:

A colleague wants to know how well Bavaria's schools are really prepared for distance learning - keyword teacher laptops and strategy.

Piazolo evades.

But not perfectly prepared for a possible distance lesson ?, the colleague inquires.

Piazolo: “Who is perfect?

Schoolchildren who now believe that they were perfectly prepared for a school assignment often have to face reality. "

11:17 a.m.:

At the back, Piazolo does not want to extend the vacation.

In fact, it is actually the case that the number of infections tends to increase during the holidays.

Didn't the teachers' associations want distance learning and vacation extensions?

Piazolo evades

11:08 a.m.:

Dirk Walter from

Münchner Merkur *

hooks up again on the topic of early Christmas holidays *.

“Why isn't there distance teaching being done?” He wants to know.

Don't you waste your chances with the extended vacation?

Two days are lost there.

Piazolo replies quite openly: “We have already thought about it.

The question then is how useful these two days of distance teaching would have been. ”The last days of school before Christmas are special days when teachers“ like to do something else ”.

In the ministry, it was hard to imagine how that would have worked with distance learning.

Especially with the smaller ones.

Then prefer a "clear decision".

At the same time there is emergency care at the schools.

Absolutely correct.

https://t.co/QkT2hy9dd9

- Dirk Walter (@dwmerkur) November 24, 2020

11:05 a.m

.: Next reporter question: How exactly are these hotspots, where lessons should be taught at home, defined?

"That will still have to be precisely defined," says the minister.

That is actually the question.

“How are you going to define a hotspot?” So obviously you can't define it yet.

11:01 a.m.:

There are still a few exciting journalist questions to follow.

Does Piazolo consider compulsory vaccination * for civil servant teachers reasonable?

Piazolo does not answer directly, but talks around it for a long time.

The colleague asks again.

Again, Piazolo does not want to commit.

"I also lack the expertise."

Education Minister Piazolo on the Corona situation in schools in Bavaria: Classroom teaching is essential, except ...

10:58 a.m.: In

summary, Piazolo is strong for face-to-face teaching, unless the Corona situation does not allow it.

10.55 am:

“It won't be the same in all schools.

This is difficult to achieve during Corona in Bavaria with different infection events. "

10:54 am:

"Most studies assume that schools are not sources of infection.

However, these studies cannot rule it out either. ”At the same time,“ face-to-face teaching makes the most sense pedagogically.

10:51 am:

Piazolo assumes "that we will have to switch to these three teaching

models

in the coming months".

Means: Basically there is face-to-face lessons, locally then depending on the incidence number, * grades and other parameters, alternating lessons or homeschooling.

10:49 am:

"We will also

make it possible in principle to

extend the

advance on trial

."

10:48 am:

To ensure that everything works, Piazolo wants "

no excessive pressure to

perform

" for the students.

Teachers should receive a lot of advanced training, the students loan laptops to take at home during alternating lessons.

Corona rules for schools in Bavaria: three teaching models during a pandemic

10:47 am

:

There are three school models:

At the moment,

94 percent of

the students

in Bavaria are in

face-to-face classes

, but not at the same time, but “alternating”.

Alternating instruction would then be model 2 and homeschooling model 3. “We have to remain flexible”.

At the same time, Piazolo

is mainly in Corona hotspots

for so-called

alternating

lessons.

That works too.

In Augsburg *, according to the minister, 40 percent are in alternating classes.

There is already a

ventilation concept

, says Piazolo, with mobile ventilation systems too.

But it is not more specific.

Corona in Bavaria: Minister is committed to face-to-face teaching at all schools

10:41 am:

Piazolo starts with a

fiery

plea for

classroom

teaching

.

But they only go with a mask, even for the little ones.

"The more masks, the longer we can keep schools open."

10:35 a.m.:

The press conference has started.

Video: The whole press conference with Michael Piazolo

Corona in Bavaria: Söder with Christmas hammer - holidays from December 18

10:20 a.m

.: The press conference with

Michael Piazolo

should start in a few minutes.

As is so often the case, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU *) has already anticipated his school minister and has already tweeted the most important news: The Christmas holidays in Bavaria will start on December 18th.

Bavaria prefers the start of the Christmas holidays due to Corona.

The last day of school is December 18th.

The risk of infection is significantly reduced by the almost one-week waiting period between school lessons and Christmas, so that families can celebrate in a healthy and carefree way.

- Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) November 24, 2020

* Merkur.de and Münchner Merkur are part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Christian Deutschländer

Source: merkur

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