Lots of bureaucracy and always reorganizing: Teachers from Ebersberg describe what politics in Corona times demand of them - and what annoys them.
District - sometimes distance, sometimes face-to-face and / or alternating lessons - this constant, sometimes short-term back and forth determined by politics has been on the timetable for students, parents and teachers for a year.
“It's crazy,” says Astrid Jahreiß, vice principal of the Karl-Sittler-Straße elementary school in Poing.
You and other teachers from the Ebersberg district reported in a video conference of the Bavarian Teachers' Association (BLLV) about things from everyday Corona school life, or: madness.
Teachers from the district of Ebersberg report on additional work behind the scenes
Example: On Friday afternoons, the school management informs the parents which rules apply from Monday.
Both families and schools have just one weekend to reorganize themselves.
Parents wonder why school doesn't come until Friday afternoon.
Susanne Böhm has an answer to this: “The letters from the ministry of culture often don't come until Friday,” reports the director of the middle school in Grafing, looking anything but happy and satisfied.
The schools, according to Böhm, have just as little time to adjust to the new conditions.
What she doesn't say, but if you interpret her gaze correctly, you think: an absurdity.
The effort involved in documenting the corona rapid tests is one of the greatest difficulties.
Susanne Böhm, Rector of the Grafing Middle School
Another topic: the corona rapid tests.
“The effort involved in documenting the tests is one of the greatest difficulties,” says Susanne Böhm.
Every test has to be documented, plus new orders for test kits and more.
A lot of bureaucratic effort that school administrators and teachers also have to deal with.
Double burden for teachers, students and parents
Astrid Jahreiß, vice principal of the Karl Sittler primary school in Poing, confirms this.
She speaks of a “huge effort in documentation” and then utters the sentence that, from her point of view, describes the overall situation: “It's madness.” This includes, she adds, the double burden of distance and alternating lessons.
Double burden for teachers as well as for children and parents.
This is what all the teachers emphasize again and again during the one-hour press conference.
And: “It's unbelievable how great the children deal with all of this.” In particular, the first graders, who don't even know normal school.
In secondary schools, there should initially be a six-month trial period.
Ingrid Schermann, teacher and mother of three school-age children
But, the teachers also say: Slowly but surely everyone is reaching the end of their strength, the end of their motivation.
Teachers, parents, students.
Many of the teachers know both sides.
Ingrid Schermann from the Anni Pickert Primary School in Poing, for example: She is the mother of three school-age children and teaches a second grade herself.
Like all other teachers, she argues that politicians should use the Corona crisis as an opportunity to rethink the rigid school system and curricula in general: “Everything has to be more flexible.” With a view to the next school year, she suggests: “In Secondary schools should initially be given a six-month trial period. ”In order to bring all students back to the same level.
Corona concealed the shortage of teachers.
In September we will be massively lacking teachers.
BLLV President Simone Fleischmann
Whether in the new school year, from September, school operations will be back to normal with face-to-face lessons?
The teachers hope so.
If Corona is more or less under control by then, a well-known problem will reappear, says BLLV President Simone Fleischmann: the shortage of teachers.
“Corona masked the shortage of teachers.
In September we will be massively lacking teachers. ”She also speaks of another well-known problem that has become clearer due to Corona: school administrators, who are also class leaders, especially in elementary schools, simply do not have the time for leadership tasks.
With all the bureaucracy.
That is why Fleischmann demands from politicians: "We need more management hours."