It is still not clear how the schools will continue after January 10th.
SPD man Karl Lauterbach makes a spectacular proposal - and is not alone with his approach.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid-19 cases
is
high
around
New Year's Eve
and
New Year's
.
In the
tough corona lockdown,
social life in the Federal Republic will largely rest until January 10th.
But: how are things afterwards because of
Covid-19
continue with the
schools
?
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
and the state leaders around
Bavaria's Markus Söder (CSU)
have still not clarified this question.
SPD
health expert Karl Lauterbach
makes a spectacular proposal.
Munich / Berlin - The times are tricky.
The
tough corona lockdown
paralyzes
large parts of social life in
Germany
, while the
vaccination against Covid-19 starts
rather bumpy.
And: Although the
lockdown was
scheduled for a long time until (at least) January 10th, one question was still unanswered by December 29th: What will happen to and in
schools
after this date?
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: what will happen to schools after January 10th?
Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin
- all federal states had extended
Christmas holidays
for
students
and
teachers
on different dates from mid-December
.
Rather emergency solutions instead of a long-term strategy in the already challenging
corona pandemic
.
A man who is
omnipresent in expressing his opinion
in the
coronavirus crisis
has now also commented on this point - with a daring move:
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Karl Lauterbach calls for shortened summer holidays
“After the lockdown, there must be no return to regular classroom teaching.
Mask, airing plus 30 children is not possible, otherwise there is a risk of exponential growth in the number of infections, "said the 57-year-old social democrat of the
Rheinische Post
- and called for" nationwide divided classes, additional support for those with learning difficulties, mandatory masking in the school buildings and
shortened summer holidays
to compensate the deficits ”.
Shortened summer vacation?
The
German Child Protection Association
recently
brought
such a scenario
into play and, in return, spoke out in favor of extending the
Christmas holidays
until the end of January.
Corona pandemic in Germany: Christmas holidays at schools until the end of January?
Lauterbach's
concern with regard to the
infection rate in schools
is no coincidence: As
Der Tagesspiegel
reported after Christmas, for example, a
large corona outbreak at a Hamburg school
in September can be traced back to
infections in the classrooms
.
Specifically: The
Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI)
and the
Eppendorf University Hospital
had investigated an outbreak at the Heinrich Hertz School in cooperation with the Hamburg-Nord health department.
The result: “The vast majority of transmissions are most likely due to a single source of infection.
The possibility that the outbreak resulted from independent entries can be ruled out with a probability bordering on certainty. "
Karl Lauterbach: Schools should only open gradually after January 10th due to Corona
Now calls
Karl Lauterbach
,
schools
and classrooms after January 10 only gradually open.
Just
Hamburg followed
suit on the same day, December 29th, and released all
students
from classroom teaching until at least January 17th.
Dispute about the
Corona school policy
is likely.
The
Baden-Württemberg Minister of Education, Susanne Eisenmann (CDU)
, had spoken out in favor of opening daycare centers and elementary schools "in any case" to be present.
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