Bavaria is pushing ahead with school and daycare openings.
An important opening criterion is the incidence value.
This creates uncertainty for everyone involved.
Nuremberg / Munich
- For many it is probably another step towards normality and out of the Corona * routine.
As of today, primary schools and daycare centers in Bavaria have reopened.
However, the lessons only take place alternately.
In order for the children to be able to go back to school, the 7-day incidence * in the respective region must be below 100.
A tightrope walk for border regions like Nuremberg *.
Mayor Marcus König (CSU) has now made a decision.
School in Corona times: Nuremberg is going back to distance teaching
After just one day of alternating lessons, the pupils in Nuremberg * will go back to distance learning from Tuesday (February 23).
Mayor Marcus König announced this at a press conference on Monday afternoon.
According to the RKI, the Franconian metropolis reported an incidence value of 101.5 (as of Monday, February 22, 3.10 a.m.).
It thus exceeds the limit of 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
König comments: “It's not an easy decision, but safety comes first.” On Thursday, a decision will then be made as to whether the distance lessons will be continued in the coming week.
In the Schwandorf district in the Upper Palatinate (incidence: 111.6), the infection situation is to be monitored further, according to the district office.
Schools and daycare centers will remain open here for the time being.
On Tuesday they want to decide on further steps.
The Cham district (incidence: 107) withdrew schools and daycare centers on Sunday.
Only final classes may continue to be taught there alternately.
According to the RKI, a total of 16 cities and districts are above or just below the 100 incidence mark on Monday.
Unsafe times for students, teachers and parents.
School in Corona times: Söder defends the openings
In a press conference before the meeting of the CSU board in Munich, state chief Markus Söder * defended the school and daycare openings.
“No, it's not a mistake.” Students needed perspective.
“We are experiencing collateral damage in schoolchildren.” Söder actually has no choice but to defend the opening step.
Because according to the agreements of the latest federal-state talks, elementary schools and daycare centers should not open until March 1st.
So Bavaria went a separate way again.
"We now have alternating lessons, we have incidence dependency, we have masks, we have test concepts, so a lot more about safety issues, that is almost impossible," emphasized Söder.
The next ten days will show how the openings affected the spread of the virus *.
In addition, the regional chief also called for rapid tests to be used in schools.
And he brought up a possible vaccination prioritization for teachers and educators.
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Many school principals are not at all enthusiastic about the school openings.
Your association has now written a fire letter to the Minister of Education, Michael Piazolo.
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