With a view to Christmas and New Year's Eve, the country leaders decide on new corona measures.
It is also about schools.
Different rules are emerging here.
In Germany, the restrictions will be tightened in the last few weeks of 2020.
Despite the increasing number of corona infections, the country leaders continue to rely on face-to-face teaching in schools.
More and more federal states are taking action on the topic of Christmas holidays.
Update from November 25th, 10:59 p.m.:
As expected, there was a new concept on the subject of schools after the long Corona summit.
Schools should remain open, but in higher grades they are
required to wear a mask
.
In the areas with an incidence above 200,
hybrid and alternating teaching should be
possible.
These measures apply from the said incidence value from grade eight - but not for the final grades.
Markus Söder
also praised
the commitment and ease of the students and young people, who seem to have fewer problems with the measures than adults.
Ultimately, the decision remains a matter for the country and is made locally on site.
The
classroom
is paid remains a top priority.
In order to be able to keep minimum distances and to make the transport to the #school safer, according to Merkel, hybrid and #change lessons should be used in higher classes.
- BR24 (@ BR24) November 25, 2020
Corona measures for schools: New regulation for hotspot regions
Update from November 25th, 8:39 pm:
Now there is apparently a little movement in the counting
school negotiations at the Corona summit
.
As the
picture
of the summit participants wanted to know, in regions with high numbers of infections
from the 8th grade onwards, alternating lessons should be possible
.
In the “hotspots” defined in the afternoon - from an incidence of 200 -
“hybrid lessons”
will now also be
among the options.
This rule should also apply from grade 8, with the exception of final grades.
Update from November 25th, 7:55 p.m.:
In fact, the
dispute over school measures
threatens
to become a
hangover
.
The informants of the
Bild
newspaper report of annoying long discussions: It is insanely annoying, they say, "because everyone wants to say something about everything".
Corona measures for schools: bizarre school bus dispute in the Chancellery?
Update from November 25, 7:18 p.m.: The
federal and state governments are apparently threatening each other in a dispute
to entangle
the schools
in detailed issues.
As the
Bild
wants to know,
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) is
blocking
an agreement on
school buses
: Saxony will only use more buses if the federal government pays the costs.
Here, too, the key is to provide more distance and thus more protection against infection.
Corona measures for school: Merkel round is now debating
Update from November 25th, 6.40 p.m.:
Angela Merkel and the prime ministers
have already cleared
some points of contention
in their
Corona summit
- from a new hotspot limit to an agreement on fireworks on New Year's Eve.
Now, according to information from
Bild,
the
topic of schools is
on the agenda.
It seems questionable that the debates on this important topic will end quickly: Among other things, there is a dispute about
alternating
lessons
and
halving classes
.
In addition to the best possible school education, which is essential for young people, the focus is also on families - video lessons in their own home could put many mothers and fathers under additional pressure again.
Update from November 25th, 12:36 pm:
"
Changing classes
in
Baden-Württemberg
would be an existential mistake," said the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Education,
Susanne Eisenmann
(CDU) on Wednesday.
“Nothing speaks in favor of alternating lessons.
There is no substantive justification, neither numbers nor facts ”, Eisenmann said in the
dpa
customer conference.
The resolution proposed by the Prime Ministers before the
Corona summit with Angela Merkel
does not yet provide for comprehensive alternation classes.
Update from November 25th, 12.15 p.m.: Susanne Eisenmann
(CDU), Minister of Culture of
Baden-Württemberg
, warns of
criticism from working parents
in the debate about extended
Christmas holidays
.
"In the real world, this already triggers one or the other problem," said Eisenmann on Wednesday in the
dpa
customer conference.
"That is a big topic on site."
If you plan to start the
Christmas holidays
earlier, the call for emergency care will be loud, she said.
However, that would contradict the appeal for
self-quarantine
before the holidays.
"That is why I believe that the measure does not really work, but causes problems," said the Minister of Education.
Corona summit with Merkel today: School is a big topic - measures are discussed
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Armin Laschet (CDU), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, speaks in the state parliament.
© Federico Gambarini / dpa
Update from November 25, 11:45 a.m.:
In the state parliament, North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister
Armin Laschet
(CDU)
advertised
face-to-face teaching
on Wednesday
.
“The kitchen table at home in a two- or three-room apartment is not a better place to learn.
The best place to learn is in school, ”said Laschet.
All Prime Ministers are in agreement on this point.
The
early
Christmas holidays
in
NRW have
now become a model for all of Germany.
Update from November 25th, 10:07 am:
According to the draft resolution, the federal government would like to start the holidays
from December 19th
.
Not from December 16th.
This apparently led to confusion, wrote journalist Michael Bröcker on Twitter.
Confusion in the Chancellery at @HBraun and in some agency reports.
The Christmas holidays should NOT be brought forward to December 16 (a Wednesday!) But to December 19.
And that was also the first (smiled at) suggestion from Mr. @ArminLaschet #servicetweet pic.twitter.com/L8lq2cDiZ5
- Michael Bröcker (@MichaelBroecker) November 24, 2020
Update from November 25th, 10:00 am:
Green parliamentary group leader
Katrin Göring-Eckardt
calls in a catalog from which the newspapers of the
editorial network Germany
quoted on Wednesday, a
"care
guarantee
"
in the case of schools and daycare closings.
For everyone “who needs this support”.
Update from November 24th, 3:25 p.m.:
Surprisingly, Lower Saxony now also prefers the Christmas holidays.
As a spokeswoman for
Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD)
confirmed, December 18 will be the last day of school before the holidays, as in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria.
That had previously sounded very different from the cabinet (see first report).
But the
example of Bavaria
may have
generated enough persuasive power.
The regulation was
not particularly well received by
the parents, especially in the
Free State
.
Because now many
working
people are wondering
how the care of the children should be done during the Christmas week.
It is questionable whether this point has been thought through to the end.
There was already
resentment here
when the
schools closed in the spring
.
First report on November 24th:
Munich - The disaster in the spring was a deterrent.
When, through
homeschooling
for millions of children and young people, the
decade-long failures in the educational system became
evident.
That is why the country leaders made a
decision
at the beginning of the
second Corona wave
: This time
schools will
remain
open.
Virtually at any price.
Or to go back to a sentence from CSU boss
Markus Söder
from the early phase of the
corona pandemic
: Whatever it takes.
So any
care problems of working parents
should be
avoided.
And the often inadequate technical equipment for
virtual lessons is
forgotten.
But the
problems
caused by
self-imposed coercion
have long since ceased to be
discussed away.
Whole classes have to be
quarantined
because of individual infections
.
Absences of teachers - as before the Corona outbreak - result in a number of canceled classes.
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Corona rules in schools: Müller promotes face-to-face teaching - especially for younger people
This does not result in any rethinking.
Berlin's mayor
Michael Müller
(SPD) told the
ARD
-Morgenmagazin once more: "We want, as far as it goes, the
classroom
maintained." Yet his attention primarily go toward the lower volumes because in these lessons also from
social reasons
is particularly important.
For the older students, a combination of
on-site lessons and digital homework
could also be
offered.
Experts have been arguing for months
whether educational institutions really should be among the
hotspots
.
A clear no to this question has not yet been heard.
One thing is certain: the
situation for Germany's youngsters
offers enough material for discussion.
Video: According to the study, the risk of corona infection in schools is overestimated
Corona measures in schools: NRW and Bavaria start the Christmas holidays earlier
While the 16 country heads are
now following a uniform line
for many
corona measures
, a
new patchwork quilt is emerging
in terms of dealing with the school
.
North Rhine-Westphalia
was the first federal state to decide to bring the start of the
Christmas holidays
forward.
Bavaria followed
suit.
Here, too, December 18th will be the last day of school of the year.
Provincial father Söder promises that the "
risk of infection
(...) will be significantly reduced by the almost one-week waiting period between school lessons and Christmas" and that "families
can
celebrate in a healthy and carefree
way".
So there is
hope
that the children and young people will stay at home from December 19th.
It is well known that the private household has long been identified as a
source of
infection
that
should not be underestimated
.
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Early in the Christmas holidays or not?
Different decisions are made from state to state.
© Hauke-Christian Dittrich / dpa
Corona rules in German schools: Other federal states criticize Laschet and Söder's approach
Meanwhile,
Lower Saxony and Saxony
do not want to follow
the path of the two most populous states
.
Out of
consideration for the parents
, because the Saxon minister of education Christian Piwarz (CDU) fears "a veritable childcare problem".
In Lower Saxony, the move is
criticized
in the west and south-east of the Federal Republic as a
"message of sham security"
.
A clear accusation towards Armin Laschet and Söder.
New trouble seems to be brewing here.
In
Bremen, Thuringia and Baden-Wuerttemberg
, the students would still be taught until December 22, according to the current status.
The green-black government in the south-west propagates flexibility: Education Minister Susanne Eisenmann (CDU) wants to leave it to the schools themselves
to extend
the Christmas
holidays
by two days
with
moving holidays
.
It is not yet known when Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia will make up for the two canceled teaching days.
The Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
Winfried Kretschmann
caused astonishment
, according to which the
Christmas holidays
would be extended nationwide.
The Prime Ministers had agreed on this in talks - only Bremen was not going along.
The
early start of the holiday
would create a stretch of five to six days until Christmas Eve, which could be used to minimize contacts.
If everyone really stayed at home.
The Green politician spoke of a "whole (n)
incubation phase
".
Corona rules in schools: Mask requirement in class, probably from 7th grade onwards
One can
hope for a
little more uniformity in the matter of
mask requirement in lessons
: This should
apply across
Germany for all students from the 7th grade.
There are exceptions for regions that have a
seven-day incidence
of less than 50 per 100,000 population
.
Even
schools without corona cases
may be exempted from the regulation.
The
countries under Union leadership
even plead for a mask requirement across all age groups.
Which brings us back to a common approach throughout the state.
The proposed test strategy stipulates that every class
should be
quarantined
for
five days in
the first case of Corona
.
The same applies to the
teachers
concerned
.
On the fifth day of this isolation, she would
undergo
rapid
tests; if the results were negative
, she would
go back to school.
Additional capacities for antigen tests are
to be made available
by the federal government
.
In the meantime,
school trips
and international exchanges should remain prohibited - which
only makes sense in
view of the
hotels that are closed
all over Germany
and the
severely limited opportunities for leisure activities
.
In addition, it is recommended
to stagger
the start of
lessons
and thus to straighten out school traffic.
Then there might also be a chance
to keep a
sufficient
distance
on
the buses
.
(mg)
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