The summer vacation should be shortened to three weeks - if it goes in the opinion of the parliamentary group leader of the CDU / CSU in the Bundestag.
Opposition to this is emerging.
Munich -
"The decisive factor in life is not whether I have three weeks longer vacation or not," says
Ralph Brinkhaus
, the chairman of the
CDU / CSU parliamentary group
.
The learning material is decisive for life.
With this thesis Brinkhaus wants to underpin his proposal: The summer vacation 2021 would have to be shortened to three weeks.
“To be honest: who goes on vacation for six weeks?
Most can not afford that, "he said in the
RTL
morning magazine" Frühstart ".
"Accordingly, you can easily accommodate three or two weeks there." His suggestion falls on the day on which teachers, students and parents have completed the first week of the new home schooling period.
Summer holidays during Corona times: The shortening had not passed in 2020
The idea, however, is not new: As early as April 2020, it was discussed whether the
school material missed
due to the first
Corona
*
lockdown
should be made up in August instead of six weeks of summer vacation.
Even then, student, parent and teacher representatives had mostly spoken out against it.
In the end, the summer vacation took place as planned and was a welcome break for many.
Various federal states are already planning to skip the upcoming winter holidays.
They should therefore serve to catch up on learning material - because less time remains for the individual subjects in distance learning.
Cancellation of the holidays: Resistance is rising at schools because of the winter holidays
There is also resistance to this
cancellation of
vacation, for example in Bavaria: Realschullehrerverband, Philologenverband and Katholische Erziehergemeinschaft consider them questionable.
They do not rule out that they also examine legal action against it.
The argument of the
teacher representatives
: If the
distance lesson
lasts longer, a break in mid-February is all the more important.
Several online petitions in Bavaria alone had won 75,000 supporters by Thursday for keeping the holidays.
It seems foreseeable that the Brinkhaus idea will therefore not meet with much support from teachers, parents and students.
(kat)
* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network.
