No standardized test controls in daycare centers - parents "you have to trust a little"

Created: 01/11/2022, 8:00 AM

From: Barbara Schlotterer-Fuchs

Children who want to attend kindergarten have to do a self-test with their parents three times a week.

How do the kindergartens control it?

That is different in the entire district.

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As of yesterday, parents have had to prove three negative corona tests per week so that their children can attend daycare.

The kindergartens in the district handle it differently how such a certificate should look like.

A first (positive) response.

Weilheim-Schongau district -

It is the first day of kindergarten after the Christmas holidays. You play it safe in the municipal kindergarten in Penzberg. Instead of the three required self-tests per week, the parents agreed that a certified test from the test center must be available for every child on this opening day. "So that we can all start the new year 'negatively'", says Tamara Eberl, deputy head. Better safe than sorry. In fact, all parents of the 92 children taught a certified negative test punctually for Monday. “It got off to a really good start,” Eberl praised the parents.

What's next?

From now on, here in the Penzberg facility, as in all other daycare centers in the district, a test result will be mandatory for the offspring three times a week.

The parents will confirm the negative evidence.

By signing a table.

The negative test cassette is not required here.

“You have to trust a bit,” says Eberl.

In doing so, she cites the fact that the authorization certificates for the self-tests have also been well received here.

In addition: "Some of our children have already been vaccinated or have recovered."

Confirmation is given by signing or showing the test cassette

In the evangelical rainbow kindergarten in Peißenberg, it is possible to visit the daycare center by signing or showing the negative test cassette.

The response from 75 parents on the first day: "It felt like half of the parents signed, the others showed the cassette," says the director, Betina Kreutzer.

She praises her parents, who "handle the situation very responsibly - we have had very few cases."

Everything unspectacular also at the municipal children's home “Pfiffikus” in Weilheim.

All parents handed in and thrown away a test cassette for the first time yesterday.

90 children were able to start the first day of the daycare after the holidays, says Bianca Schuster, deputy director.

At the Catholic Kindergarten Mariae Himmelfahrt in Schongau, they want to be on the safe side.

Parents who want to hand their child over here in the morning must hand in the test cassette with the negative strip.

"A mother pointed out to us that the test result is sometimes falsified," says Anja Schneider, who, as the deputy head, is responsible for the new test evidence.

So you reacted immediately: A photo is taken of the test cassette with the mobile phone camera at home, which in case of doubt should serve to clarify the situation when it is presented.

So that the same test cannot be shown three times a week without testing, the test cassette is disposed of on site.

Isn't the parents willing to test enough?

Why not leave it with the simpler signature solution in the church institution?

"Very few parents have accepted the offer for free tests from the pharmacy," says head Manuela Schülke, suggesting that some parents may not be as willing to test as one would like.

It expresses what some people might already think: “Anyone can sign quickly.” Even if testing at home has perhaps been forgotten.

“If you have to hand in the test cassette, that's something else,” says Schülke - even if the test is not carried out on site.

And: "You still have to have a little trust in your parents."

In fact, the whole thing is taken quite seriously here at daycare.

A mother no longer had time to test at home and therefore had no test cassette with her.

“But she also understood that she had to take her child home with her.

We have to do it that way, otherwise it won't work, ”Schülke advertises for consistent action in matters of testing.

After all, 65 children attend their facility.

"And our big goal must be to stay up the way it is now."

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