Bavaria starts classroom teaching after the holidays: Piazolo does not expect schools to close
Created: 01/04/2022 Updated: 01/04/2022 10:46 AM
From: Verena Möckl
The Bavarian Minister of Culture Michael Piazolo is clearly in favor of face-to-face teaching after the holidays.
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In Bavaria, school operations start with attendance after the holidays.
The Bavarian Minister of Culture Michael Piazolo has spoken out clearly against distance teaching.
Munich - What will happen to the schools after the holidays in view of the impending Omikron wave?
Bavaria's Minister of Culture Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) assured that there will be no school closings in Bavaria after the Christmas holidays.
"We want face-to-face lessons, we had face-to-face lessons, we will start with face-to-face lessons in the next week like other federal states," he told
BR24 Rundschau
.
Corona in Bavaria: Bavarian Ministry of Culture want classroom teaching after the holidays
Piazolo confirmed that after the federal-state meeting on Friday there would be no new templates that school principals would have to implement within a few days.
However, it is possible that there may still be detailed changes with regard to the quarantine regulations.
He assured that one was well prepared against Omikron, even if it was not yet possible to assess the exact consequences of the Omikron mutant.
"It is always important to watch Corona and the developments and mutations," said the minister.
Bavaria's Minister of Education, Dr.
Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) © Sven Hoppe / dpa
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BLLV: Classroom teaching not at any price
Simone Fleischmann, President of the Bavarian Teachers' Association, warned not to exclude distance learning in advance *.
"That is not the reality in which we find ourselves," she said in an exclusive interview with
merkur.de.
Fleischmann therefore demanded a clear decision from politicians.
“The school principals must be relieved.
To do this, we need certain parameters. ”She cited incidence as an example.
Piazolo sees it differently.
The free-voter politician said that there was no such number.
According to the
BR
, he named
hospital occupancy
as a “decisive factor”
, not incidence.
At the same time, he assured us that intensive efforts would be made to find students with learning backlogs due to the distance teaching.
Schools in Bavaria * will resume next week - according to the current status.
In Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Brandenburg, Berlin, Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in Saarland and possibly in Thuringia, the students will attend classes again this week.
Education ministers advise on Wednesday
On Wednesday, the respective education ministers of the federal states will hold a video conference to discuss how to proceed with the Omikron wave.
The results of the meeting should also have an impact on the round of prime ministers with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The traffic light parties, like the education ministers of the federal states, had always excluded school closings across the board and advocated face-to-face teaching.
Pediatricians also advocate keeping schools open.
According to studies, children are more likely to be infected with the coronavirus at home than at school.
Simone Fleischmann disagrees.
“Of course we don't want distance learning,” she assured in an interview with
merkur.de
.
However, due to the prevailing shortage of teachers and the rapidly spreading Omikron variant, distance teaching will soon have to be mandatory in some schools *.
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