From Monday it will also be said in the Dachau district: Without Corona-Schnelles no participation in lessons.
Most parents understand.
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- School will start again for all students next Monday.
For those - few - children who are taught in the classroom, a test is then compulsory.
The schools are prepared - and the parents for the most part agree.
Up until three weeks ago, the enthusiasm of many parents that their children should undergo rapid corona tests at school was kept within narrow limits.
As the Director of Education Albert Sikora told Dachauer Nachrichten, a query from the legal guardians would have shown that a "not inconsiderable part" did not agree with the tests - some parents even threatened the Education Authority with a lawsuit.
Sikora therefore urged the Ministry of Culture to “re-sharpen it”.
The ministry complied with this request, and from Monday testing at least twice a week will be compulsory in schools.
In addition, emphasizes Sikora's deputy Petra Fuchsbichler, "a rethinking" has taken place in many families: "The reservations of some parents have been put into perspective." Virus can be tested.
One of the main reasons for the rejection of the tests was that the parents feared that their children would be excluded if the test was positive.
However, Fuchsbichler emphasizes that the children have been talking about the topic for months and that the teachers are preparing them to receive a positive test result.
Fuchsbichler is therefore “convinced that nobody is stigmatized, the schools are really well positioned on the subject”.
But not only the pedagogical handling of the Corona issue will work, as the school councilor explains.
There are also enough quick tests that the children will have to do under supervision from Monday.
The latest delivery from Munich should last one and a half to two weeks.
This, emphasizes Fuchsbichler, “ensures that all children in school are treated and tested equally”.
The fact that a voluntary test - as announced a month ago - has now become compulsory, is therefore not a sign of mistrust towards the parents, but only "an attempt to ensure that all children can go to school again in the long term".
Quick test results are only valid for 24 hours
As reported by the district office, the state education authority received a letter from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture at around 3 p.m. on Friday, from which it emerges that there is an incidence-based differentiation in the period of validity of test results for class participation from Monday.
The testing on which the negative test result is based or the self-test carried out in the school may have been carried out in counties with a 7-day incidence over 100 a maximum of 24 hours before the start of the school day.
For the district of Dachau (incidence 120.7), this currently means that the rapid test results are only valid for 24 hours.
Pupils who start classroom or alternating classes on Monday must therefore be tested on Sunday or carry out a self-test at school on Monday morning.
The situation is different for urban districts and districts, which have a 7-day incidence below 100.
A 48-hour period applies there.
A negative test result, for example based on a test carried out on Monday, is also valid for school attendance on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A new test should be carried out on Thursday at the latest.
In the case of the 24-hour period, however, more frequent testing is required.
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At the moment, however, the rapid tests will only affect a small part of the student body anyway.
Because the seven-day incidence in the city and district of Dachau is over 100, only fourth graders, pupils in the final grades and eleventh graders from FOS and grammar school are allowed back into the classrooms.
The procedure should not be easy and very time-consuming, especially for elementary school students.
"We plan the entire first lesson for the tests, the class teachers will guide the children precisely," emphasizes Alexandra Wolff, headmistress of the Petershausen primary school.
There, the tests are carried out in the classrooms - “in a familiar environment,” as the headmistress emphasizes.
It will be different in Weichs: There the tests do not take place in the classrooms, but outside the school building in a test tent (we reported).
Before the start of the class, the students have to go through various stations before they are allowed to enter the school building.
This applies to everyone, "unless the students can already present a medical test result - for example in the form of a PCR or POC test," explains Anita Aumüller-Menz, head of the Weichs secondary school.
According to Thomas Höhenleitner, headmaster of the Indersdorf high school, his students will test themselves in their classrooms on Mondays and Wednesdays.
The teacher of the first lesson would take over the supervision, and the children would also be “guided through video material”.
Like his colleague Wolff in Petershausen, he also thinks it is important that the children “maintain the familiar framework”.
The more often and more structured the tests were, the more confidently the students would deal with them in the long term.
And maybe, hopes Höhenleitner, “it will eventually become a ritual”.
In any case, the support of parenthood is there.
If there is no such support, however, consequences have to be accepted.
The Deputy Head of Education Fuchsbichler is very clear on this point: “Children who are not tested are not allowed to go to school or to emergency care.
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All information on the school-related implementation of the mandatory test is available from the respective school management.
An explanatory video for the self-test can also be found on the website of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture at www.km.bayern.de/selbsttests.
Verena Möckl / Stefanie Zipfer
