Now, after all, alternating lessons in elementary schools: This is how school principals assess the rule correction

Now it remains with alternating lessons: The short-term correction of the rules by the district office caused unrest in the primary schools - but above all for relief.

District - After face-to-face classes were open to everyone on Monday, on Tuesday only half of the classes are in primary schools.

Headmistresses had already urged last week to keep the alternate lessons.

But the district office had requested full attendance on Friday because of the incidence value of 49.8, but corrected the decision at short notice on Sunday evening.

Schools could not (and did not have to) row back.

"That caused a lot of unrest, but it is the only right thing." This is how Bettina Linden, director of the Inningen elementary school, comments on the district office's "infection protection exception order".

Your statement could also come from your colleagues in the district.

And one more sentence comes up several times if you speak to those responsible in primary schools: “The face-to-face lessons would have been an imposition for the teachers.” For some, it is also the organizationally demanding alternating lessons: “I have some that are canceled.

They just can't do it anymore, ”says Linden.

Some parents left their children at home out of concern

Marion Otto, principal of the elementary school at Pilsensee, informed her staff on Sunday by email and, for security, also by What'sApp.

“It's an incredible amount of organizational effort right now.

There are no longer weekends for the school management, ”she says.

And: the incidence is too high for full classes.

“On Monday, a couple of parents de-registered their children.

It's too tight for them. ”Everyone is alarmed these days: There were positive corona cases in the schools in Weßling, Herrsching and Starnberg.

Nicole Bannert from the elementary school in Starnberg thinks the rule correction is short-term, but also “absolutely sensible”.

“Our biggest problem is emergency care,” she says.

Around 30 children have to be looked after every day - in addition to the alternating lessons, which also binds all teachers.

The victims are the subject teachers, who mostly take over the emergency care - which means that they do not have contact with fixed groups, but with many students from different classes.

"They are the pawn and are particularly at risk," says Bannert.

In order to protect staff and students, she is currently dispensing with subject-specific lessons, in which teachers go from class to class.

Advantage for small schools

Katharina Casper from the Christian Morgenstern School in Herrsching says: “The teachers were incredibly happy to have everyone there again.

On the other hand, there is great concern about infection. ”Small elementary schools like Traubingen are in a comfortable situation.

Face-to-face classes have been going on there for weeks and continue to do so.

"We have large rooms, a huge playground and can keep the 1.5 meter distances," explains headmistress Michaela Walch.

Sofas and pianos have also been removed from the rooms to provide more space.

“It is important for the children's psyche that everyone is together,” says Walch.

As a small school you often have disadvantages, for example in competitions.

"This time we have an advantage."

The back and forth was also a topic in the district council on Monday.

In response to a request from Prof. Ingo Hahn (AfD), District Administrator Stefan Frey announced that in the event of an incidence at the border on Friday, two stipulations would be made - one for under 50 or 100 and one for exceeding the threshold with withdrawal of the stipulation.

This is how Frey acted this week as well.

One problem is that the district must use the incidence information from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and, according to Bavarian law, act accordingly - “regardless of whether it is correct or incorrect”.

He had consulted with the school office, teachers and staff councils at the weekend and then made the exception order.

But one could certainly ask whether the legal basis for these decision-making processes is in order.

There is no uniform opinion among parents - some are for regular lessons, some are against.

Frey does not believe that the processes will repeat themselves so soon: "We will not be embarrassed to be under 50 in the next few weeks."