Söder announced today on Twitter: The Christmas holidays will start on December 18 in Bavaria.
Parents are less than enthusiastic about social media.
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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
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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
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.
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