Bad Tölz: Test refusers become school refusers

Created: 05/02/2022, 13:00

By: Felicitas Bogner

For example, because they refuse regular tests, parents no longer send their children to school.

In Hohenburg everything is in the "green zone" © dpa

Even in the Tölzer Land, some parents no longer send their children to class.

The reason is the Corona requirements.

Some refuse to test compulsory.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen –

Attendance at Bavarian schools has been compulsory again since October 2021. In order to be allowed to attend classes, students must wear a mask and be tested for the corona virus several times a week. However, some parents do not agree with these safety rules. As a result, they no longer allow their children to go to class. Now there are consequences for those who refuse to go to school.

When asked by the local school authority how many children were absent from class, the district office did not give any exact figures.

School Director Petra Burkhardt says: "Fortunately, there are only a few individual cases in elementary and middle schools that are currently not attending school due to refusal to take the test." initiated, Burkhardt continues.

LRA draws attention to compulsory education and the social importance of attending school

Since November 2021, absenteeism from classes due to compulsory testing has been counted as a breach of compulsory schooling.

According to the school director, this is a requirement of the Ministry of Education.

"The pedagogical effects that this will have on the children can only be finally determined when the children go back to school," explains Burkhardt.

The school administrations are in contact with the relevant families in order not only to point out that schooling is compulsory, but also to point out the social significance of attending school.

This problem also exists in secondary schools.

When asked by our newspaper, Alexander Göbel, director of the Gabriel-von-Seidl-Gymnasium in Tölz, confirmed that there were such cases at his school.

At the same time, he asks for your understanding that he does not want to give any further information about this to the public.

"The explosiveness of the topic is too great for me," is his reasoning.

In Hohenburg everything is in the "green area"

Christoph Beck, head of the Lenggrieser St.-Ursula-Gymnasium in Hohenburg, on the other hand, is relieved: “We have not had a single case in which schoolgirls stay away from school because of the mask requirement or the mandatory tests.” There are two schoolgirls who have valid medical reports are exempt from the mask requirement.

However, they would also put on the mouth and nose protection for a short time, for example for group work.

According to Beck, there are also a few schoolgirls who do not take part in the self-tests in the class association.

"But they reliably teach test certificates from recognized test centers," says Beck.

"All pleasingly green," he concludes.

Christian Müller, principal of the Tölzer Südschule, has “such a case in our middle school.

For various reasons, the parents do not send their children to school,” he reports.

The rector declined to comment further on the case.

All other students would attend classes regularly.

More current news from the region around Bad Tölz can be found here.