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Corona in Bavaria: Harsh criticism of going it alone in the school emergency brake - "An educational catastrophe"

2021-04-26T23:00:50.824Z


Despite the federal emergency brake, Bavaria wants to take a special route and send the students to distance lessons from an incidence of 100. That meets with criticism.


Despite the federal emergency brake, Bavaria wants to take a special route and send the students to distance lessons from an incidence of 100.

That meets with criticism.

  • On Wednesday (April 21) the Bundestag passed uniform emergency braking rules for Germany.

  • In Bavaria, however, they want to go a separate way when it comes to distance teaching in schools.

  • The state government's “child lockdown” has met with clear criticism.

Munich

- No sooner had the Bundestag voted on Thursday with a narrow majority in favor of the nationwide rules for a corona emergency brake than the government of the Free State of Bavaria announced that it wanted to take a special route. This affects schools and daycare centers that should switch back to distance learning or emergency care from a seven-day incidence * of 100 - and not as decided by the federal government 165 - The federal emergency brake allows the federal states to go it alone - provided that they represent a tightening. As a rule, the Free State responded to the demands of many teachers' associations and, if the incidence is high, only allows alternating lessons for fourth graders, eleventh graders and final grades. But not everyone agrees with the regulation.

Corona lockdown: Schools closed with an incidence of 100 or more - sharp criticism of the Bavarian Sonderweg

The Green Bundestag member Dieter Janecek criticizes the Free State's decision on Twitter.

Bavaria is advancing "with the eternal child lockdown", while the economy remains untouched, according to Janecek.

The spokesman for the “Family Initiative” in Bavaria, Tobias Oelbaum, sees it similarly.

Oelbaum describes the fact that there is a Corona * limit value for distance teaching, but no value that forces companies to work from home, as a "misery", in which one can assume "that at least until Pentecost there will no longer be any attendance at school".

According to Oelbaum in an interview with the

BR

, many parents are already at the end of their tether and possibilities in childcare.

The test and hygiene concepts in schools are much better thought out and implemented than is the case in most companies.

"Education disaster": Ex-Chairman of the Ethics Council warns of school lockdown until the summer holidays

This is how the former chairman of the German Ethics Council, the theologian Peter Dabrock, sees it.

In an interview with the

Phoenix

news channel

, he warned of the consequences of the Corona * pandemic for children and adolescents.

Politics is currently only made by people “who don't care about children, adolescents, young students”, said Dabrock.

In some places, lowering the incidence from 165 to 100 will probably mean school closings until the summer holidays.

“This is an educational catastrophe,” Dabrock is appalled.

Schools in Bavaria closed at an incidence of 100: Minister of State Herrmann defends the procedure

The Bavarian State Chancellor Florian Herrmann (CSU) spoke in the

Münchner Merkur

of the increasing numbers of infections among children and adolescents. These require that you want to stick to the stricter rules for distance teaching. "We owe that to the health of our students," Herrmann said literally. Education Minister Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) also defended the stricter rules. He considers the incidence of 165, which the federal government provides for school closings, to be arbitrarily determined and not sensible. With the current infection situation, there is no room for school openings.

In fact, most teachers' associations have been publicly insisting in recent days that the incidence of 100 should continue to be used as a benchmark for school closings. After the regulation became known, the President of the Bavarian Teachers' Association, Simone Fleichmann, wrote on Twitter: “Yeah! The 100 remains ”. The President of the German Teachers' Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, and the Association of Teachers at Vocational Schools also expressed their views. The head of the German Realschule Teachers Association, Jürgen Böhm, even called a higher incidence limit "completely unrealistic and highly negligent".

All information about the corona pandemic in Bavaria is available in our news ticker *.

By the way: The most important stories from the Free State are now also available in our brand new, regular Bayern newsletter.

* Merkur.de / bayern is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA (kah)

List of rubric lists: © Sven Hoppe / picture alliance / dpa

Source: merkur

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