From Monday there should be more face-to-face classes for Bavaria's students.
100 million rapid tests should bring more security, but there is headwind.
Nuremberg - Goodbye home schooling.
One of the most recent lockdowns is that starting next Monday (March 15), schoolchildren of all ages in Bavaria are to be taught regularly in school again - provided the 7-day incidence permits.
To make this possible and to ensure more security, the Bavarian government is relying on masses of rapid tests.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) wants to provide 100 million tests.
Söder positions himself clearly for the test strategy and says that corona rapid tests must be carried out in schools.
Because: "In the long run, it does not help if the testing for the school is outside of the school," he emphasized during his visit to the * Sigena grammar school in Nuremberg.
100 million rapid corona tests for Bavarian schools - students should test themselves in school
The Free State wants to purchase a total of 100 million rapid tests for schools.
Eleven million are already available and are already being spent on various municipalities.
Both tests that the students and teachers are supposed to carry out themselves and tests that are only allowed to be carried out by medically trained staff are to be used for the project.
Bavarian school directors' association criticizes Söder's corona test strategy in schools: "It cannot be ..."
However, this plan meets with clear criticism from the Bavarian School Directors Association (bsv).
In a press release, the association justified its aversion to school tests as follows: "It cannot be that school administrators are responsible for ensuring that self-tests are carried out properly."
In general, the bsv is also opposed to the fact that "the self-test for schoolchildren should be part of everyday school life."
Rapid test for Bavarian pupils - Ministry of Education publishes letter
The Ministry of Culture published a letter today (March 12th) regarding the rapid tests for students.
So far, the self-tests were intended for the age group 15+, who received test kits from the school to carry out at home.
Now younger children also have the opportunity to take part in the self-tests.
However, there are procedural changes.
The letter states: “The tests * take place for the students in the school, usually in the classroom or other suitable room.
This means that the self-tests can be carried out under the supervision and, if necessary, guidance of the school.
For this you will receive separate detailed information on how these self-tests can be carried out. "
Contra of the Bavarian School Leader Association: "Limit of reasonableness clearly exceeded"
In its latest press release, the bsv countered with the following argument: “There is no protective equipment at all in schools!
And now, unvaccinated and therefore unprotected teachers are supposed to guide, monitor and, if necessary, intervene to carry out self-tests in elementary and middle school students.
Doctors refuse to do this without parental guidance. "
Corona tests in the classroom - teachers should supervise and guide
The bsv also dislikes the fact that the masks * have to be removed for testing and that the minimum distance is not reached.
Disposal of the tests also gives the headmasters' association stomach ache: “At this point at the latest, it is likely that the teacher will come into contact with a child's saliva.
The limit of reasonableness has clearly been exceeded here. ”In addition, the association is of the opinion that the goal of keeping infected students away from lessons is not achieved if they are tested in the classroom.
The bsv therefore demands that the procedural change in the test strategy be withdrawn in this regard.
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Söder sees self-rapid tests as a long-term strategy for participating in events again
The tests are still voluntary.
But according to the Lord Mayor of Nuremberg, Marcus König (CSU *), the willingness to test “must be increased significantly”.
In many ways, Söder relies on Corona * rapid tests.
He sees it as a kind of “test pass”.
If the 7-day incidence * allows, current negative tests can enable access to events and cultural institutions, says the Prime Minister.
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