Parents from Zolling and the surrounding area have now turned to top politicians in a fire letter: They criticize the compulsory corona test in schools.
Zolling
- "Dear Ms. Merkel, dear Mr. Söder, dear Mr. Piazolo": This is how a letter begins that parents from Zolling and the surrounding area wrote.
The content, in a nutshell: "Crazy times bring crazy ideas." What is meant is the requirement that schoolchildren without symptoms test themselves under the supervision of their teachers.
Because the parents consider this regulation "a very crazy idea".
The explanation: Children would spread the virus - if they had it - "funny on the way to school".
Then they would sit together in the classroom during the first lesson and receive professional instructions on how to carry out the test.
But because teachers only have two eyes, that's difficult.
Assuming a child tests positive, it will be "segregated", Piazolo is quoted as saying.
This violates data protection.
"Apart from that, it is brutal for the children affected," the letter said.
"Why should we expose the children to this shame"
The parents also criticize the fact that such self-tests can be “false positive”.
Conclusion: “If they are not accurate anyway, why test them?
Why should we expose the children to this shame when the rapid tests are so vague? "
In addition, according to the Infection Protection Act, a self-test requires consent.
Teachers are neither representatives of the health department nor doctors or pharmacists who could explain side effects.
And the parents have further questions: According to the Roche package insert, such a self-test contains a “substance of particular concern”.
That in children's hands?
Eye irritation could also occur.
And: Is the test properly disposed of as “medical special waste” after use?
Should the children now pack “second clothes” so that they can take off the contaminated laundry?
How is this laundry stored and transported home?
In addition, the parents ask themselves, “Where should the sensitivity suddenly come from the children to take a smear themselves without damaging the mucous membranes?” Are the children who tested negative can sit in class without a mask?
Who will look after the children who have tested positive until they are picked up?
"Actual action lacks any logic"
Numerous questions are asked in the letter: How and when is the teacher liable, when is the school management?
What else should teachers do?
What if the test is invalid?
Why can't the children be tested at home?
“That would be logistically easier, safer and more psychologically manageable,” say the authors of the letter.
“Is the harm we might do with the self-tests greater than the benefit?
Have you looked at the position paper on face-to-face teaching by the Bavarian Greens?
Suppose the parents do not agree to the obligation to self-test.
Will the children then get the teaching material home?
Or are there alternatives, such as streaming from the classroom? "
In other words, questions about questions that preoccupy the parents.
In addition, the signatories cite court rulings, specialists and various medical societies, all of which speak out against the use of antigen tests in children.
All of this leads the parents to the conclusion: “To be honest, if you take all of the above into account, then your current action here lacks any logic.
More testing means that the incidence automatically increases.
Please don't get us wrong, we also want the pandemic to end, but not at the children's expense. "
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