The number of postponed school enrollments for children of primary school age has not increased in the Miesbach district.
This is surprising in the corona pandemic.
District - Closed schools, homeschooling: Many families are suffering severely from the Corona crisis.
And parents, whose children are due to start first grade in September this year, are wondering whether the chaos will have subsided by then.
If their protégés are so-called "corridor children", they can even decide for themselves whether they want to postpone school enrollment again.
In view of the pandemic, are more families making use of this opportunity this year?
To give your little ones such a carefree start into the seriousness of life?
Head of school office: No corona effects on school enrollments in the Miesbach district
"In other districts this may have a greater impact, but not here," says Jürgen Heiss, technical director of the state education authority in Miesbach, who has obtained the assessment of some school principals.
There are 15 pure elementary schools and four elementary schools connected to a middle school in the district.
And two private elementary schools.
In view of the pandemic, hot himself had expected more pronounced consequences.
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Jürgen Heiss, Head of Education in Miesbach
© Thomas Plettenberg
Overall, the situation is different from school to school.
Sometimes Corona has more, sometimes less effects on the willingness to start school.
“It goes in all directions.” You can tell from the individual decisions: Some parents were unsure, asked more decidedly, the headmistress told him.
Corridor children are children who will be six years old between July 1st and September 30th of each year.
With these children, the parents can decide whether they want their child to start school or whether they wait a year longer.
“The decision is up to the parents,” he emphasizes.
However, this step is always preceded by a consultation between the parents, school and kindergarten.
However, the parents would have to agree before the relevant data is passed on between the institutions.
Corridor regulation applies despite Corona - advice is increasingly digital
The corridor regulation applies unchanged despite Corona, said the Ministry of Culture explicitly in a letter, so he said. Advice on whether a child is able to go to school or not has to take place increasingly digitally or by telephone, adds the school authority director. Every year around 50 percent of parents would use the corridor - that is, send their children to school a year later. This number is roughly the same this year. The deadline for this decision was April 12th this year.
One thing is certain: there will be no real slump in the number of pupils in primary schools for the new school year, he emphasizes.
From September 2021 - according to the current status - there will be 40 first graders more than in the previous year.
A total of 903 ABC shooters then attend the primary schools in the district.
Calculated across all grades, there are 100 more children, and there are a total of 3458 primary school students in the new school year.
"As every year, we started class formation at the end of April."
Kindergartens in the Miesbach district: Little communication from parents
The kindergartens also feel little of the parents' reluctance. The number of corridors used does not differ much from previous years, reports Petra Götzenberger, head of Kinderland GmbH, which runs ten other childcare facilities in the region in addition to Weyarn and Holzkirchen. As always, it is 50 percent. These children then stay in kindergarten for a year longer. "This has to do with Corona only in isolated cases," says Götzenberger.
However, parents are not obliged to give a specific reason for the deferral. “Most of the time, they just want to give their children another year.” According to Ursula Stacheter, one of the two directors of the Hollerbusch Protestant day care center in Holzkirchen, it is difficult to say what the motivation is. "Little was communicated to us by the parents about this." Even if it were obvious, especially since we currently do not know how the start of primary school in September will be in view of Corona. If fixed rituals and stability are lost, it is often difficult for the children.
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