On Monday, schools in Bavaria will open again for face-to-face teaching.
It is a very cautious start - only 2.3 percent of the students are allowed to go back to the classroom, sometimes alternately.
More would be possible now, says our commentator.
It starts again with school in attendance, at least at the grammar school and at FOS / BOS - and it was high time.
The students are now at home for a month and a half, three weeks of which have been taking distance lessons.
Yes, it works better than in spring and autumn.
And no, as the Minister of Education himself emphasizes, distance lessons do not replace normal face-to-face operations.
Gradually, the knowledge gaps are growing.
School openings from Monday are justifiable.
It would even be more.
Elementary, middle and secondary schools will remain completely closed for another two weeks.
Why actually?
It would make sense to start with (cautious) loosening up here too and send individual years into the classroom.
You could check it with corona rapid tests - but nothing is in sight of this once grandiose idea.
Minister of Culture Piazolo would have been ready now for bigger openings - but he has once again bowed to the coalition discipline and above all to the great admonisher Markus Söder.
Too bad.
Now, however, it depends on the subtleties: Alternating lessons are the most difficult form of teaching.
A teacher should teach half a class live in the classroom, the other half at the same time via live stream on the computer screen.
Many educators will rightly ask themselves how they can manage this despite the lack of school WiFi in many places.