Gebauer: No obligation to ski during the pandemic

Created: 01/19/2022, 12:50 p.m

Yvonne Gebauer is waiting for the school board meeting to start.

© Federico Gambarini/dpa

North Rhine-Westphalia's school minister Yvonne Gebauer (FDP) sees no obligation for school children to take part in ski camps in the current Corona situation.

"I don't think you can force children and parents," said Gebauer on Wednesday in the school committee of the Düsseldorf state parliament.

Düsseldorf – The minister was fundamentally critical of school ski holidays in times of increasing infection rates.

She thinks it is “not conducive to sit on the bus together for more than ten hours” in order to possibly “drive to a high-incidence area”.

Gebauer emphasized that anyone who plans to do this must first coordinate this with the school conference and agree on appropriate cancellation rules so that parents are not left with the costs in the end.

"I expect that." dpa