Starting next week, there will be a new everyday routine at Bavaria's schools: there will be mandatory self-tests with the students twice a week.
The facilities are ready.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - The gong at the Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium in Tölz was presented at five minutes.
Because two days a week, the students will have to arrive in the classrooms a little earlier.
After the Easter break, self-tests before class should become normal.
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To this end, the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district office has already distributed 70,000 tests to schools, as spokeswoman Sabine Schmid reports.
“The next delivery will be on April 12th.
So the schools are supplied weekly. "
Before the first lesson, the teachers guide their classes in testing.
Then the lessons start.
"After 15 minutes everyone looks at their test results," explains Claudia Reiserer, deputy headmistress of the Tölzer grammar school.
If the result for a student is positive, there is no reason to panic.
"The student then comes into a pick-up room and the parents are asked to do a PCR test," she says.
If this is negative, the child can go back to class.
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According to the Director of Education, Petra Burkhardt, it is not yet clear whether the schools have to report the child to the health department after a positive rapid test.
“We haven't heard from the Ministry of Culture yet.” Explanatory videos on how the tests are carried out have already been sent to all students, and the teachers have also been prepared.
"I think that will work in all grades," said Reiserer.
As is so often the case with the Corona issue, not everyone is enthusiastic about the new arrangement.
"Many parents are cooperative, but others threaten to take the lawyer," reports the headmistress.
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Whether some of the parents of the elementary school students in the Waldram district of Wolfratshausen will also be cross, "I'm curious about it," says Susanne Scheck.
The school's youth social worker believes it is important that parents explain to their children in advance what the tests are all about.
“Even if the first self-test is positive, the world won't end - but you have to tell the children that.” With sensitive conversations beforehand, you can take away any fears children may have about the test.
Scheck expects “that it will be strange for the children in the first week or two.
But that was also the case with the masks in the classroom, and they are now normal. ”If a child, after a positive test result, needs care until the parents arrive,“ I am of course ready, ”she emphasizes.
The reactions of the students could be very different: "I can imagine that some take it well and others burst into tears."
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Not only the students who tested positive, but also the classmates should be carefully informed about what a positive test result means.
“Our teachers will take care of that,” explains Judith Rupp, principal of the Königsdorf elementary and middle school.
In order to avoid the whole school class staring anxiously at their own test paper for 15 minutes, the teachers in Königsdorf collect the labeled tests and check the results after the deadline.
“Then the time lost in class is manageable.” In the quick tests, she sees “no huge hurdle” for the school, even if the young people have little experience with it.
Father from Bad Tölz: "Education of all parents is now the be-all and end-all"
Hamed Coulibaly, father of two children who attend the Tölzer Jahn School, sees it similarly.
“The most important thing is that the children can go to class.
So the tests are a good option. ”He himself explained to his children why the procedure is important and has already practiced it.
Coulibaly is certain: “It is now essential to educate all parents. Many believe it is dangerous.
But this is not the case."
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