From Monday onwards, students are only allowed to take part in face-to-face classes if they test themselves for Corona at school on the same day or if they present proof of evidence that is no more than 48 hours old.
Headmasters from Würmtal are optimistic that everything will run smoothly.
Würmtal
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Würmtal
students who go to school for the first time after the Easter holidays on Monday have a new compulsory task: In order to be able to take part in classroom lessons, they have to test themselves for Corona at the beginning of the school day - or provide proof that they have been tested at a doctor, pharmacy, or center within the last 48 hours.
In schools there are tests for every student twice a week.
"With us, the students are tested in their first lesson, we are currently starting with the lessons in stages," says Anita Groß, director of the Graefelfinger Kurt-Huber-Gymnasium.
The tests take place in the classroom, as otherwise the queues would form too large at the entrance doors, for example, explains Groß.
The school got the test kits from Siemens from the municipality, which in turn has them from the district administration.
“If all the students are there, the tests we have had so far will last three weeks,” says Groß.
Explanatory film uploaded to the school platform
As elsewhere, students take the tests themselves.
The teachers help with explanations, of course, and Groß has uploaded an explanatory film from the Maltese to the school platform mykhg.
The tests are carried out in such a way that the teachers prepare a tube with a stick and liquid for each student.
In the classroom, students remove the stick from the tube and liquid, insert it into their nose, and then place the stick back into the liquid.
A short time later you put a few drops of this on a test plate, on which a result can be seen after 15 minutes.
"So it's a bit like a pregnancy test," says Groß.
In the weeks before the compulsory tests, the KHG only had one positive Corona case, although 650 students had taken part in the voluntary gurgle tests.
Positive feedback from parents
"Exciting at the beginning, but then soon routine" the tests will probably be for the children of the Planegger elementary school, believes Rector Sebastian Körber.
The children also carry out the tests in Planegg in the classroom at the beginning of the class day.
"Most of the students" will do this in school and will not provide any evidence, Körber expects.
The feedback from parents so far has been very good.
A mother who works in the medical field has been at the school's side with advice, reports Körber.
He emphasizes "that a positive test result does not necessarily mean that a student is infected".
Of course, children who tested positive would no longer take part in lessons immediately, says Körber.
There has not yet been a single corona case at the school.
The provision of rapid tests and FFP2 protective masks is "exemplary" organized by the Starnberg District Office, says Sylke Wischnevsky, head of the Otto von Taube grammar school in Gautingen.
The school had "been allocated contingents with sufficient tests and masks" according to a distribution key.
If a student should have a positive result, they will be accompanied to an extra room and picked up there by their parents.
Wischnevsky rules out that panic breaks out in a class as a result.
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