District of Dachau: Abitur exams "almost like before Corona"

Created: 04/26/2022, 19:00

In recent years, the Abitur examinations had to be held in small groups.

A school in the district is still sticking to it this year, despite the significantly higher space requirements and organizational effort.

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Normality is returning - also with the Abitur exams, which start this Wednesday.

However, the three high schools in the district of Dachau regulate the examination conditions differently.

Dachau

– Today the Abitur exams begin in Bavaria, with German as the prelude.

This year's high school graduates spent the entire upper school in a state of emergency.

After two years of school closures, distance learning, quarantine, compulsory masks and corona tests, the young adults are now nearing the end of their school days.

Under these conditions, the high school graduates in the district of Dachau must complete their final exams.

"Almost like before Corona", describes the school director of the Josef-Effner-Gymnasium, Peter Mareis, the conditions for his current examinees.

During the Abitur, the lessons for the other classes also take place regularly and there is no longer an obligation to take tests.

A distance of three meters is still guaranteed, explains Mareis.

The final exams will again be written in the gymnasium - not distributed to the classrooms as in the two years before.

ITG distributes examinees to classrooms

In contrast, the Ignaz-Taschner-Gymnasium regulates the Abitur process differently.

"We will still strictly adhere to the measures and above all the distances, like last year," reports headmaster Erwin Lenz.

Students will continue to take their Abitur in classrooms in groups of no more than fifteen to minimize the risk of infection.

Due to the distribution across the classrooms, not all students can attend school parallel to their Abitur.

Corona tests no longer have to be carried out, but a mask recommendation was still made.

"The 149 high school graduates are calm and collected in relation to the conditions of the final exams - they have known the situation for two years now," reveals Lenz.

The Markt Indersdorf high school also holds the exams in the classrooms, but this is not a corona measure, but the normal case for the school’s high school graduates.

"We are happy about the returning normality," says the headmaster Thomas Höhenleitner.

The students no longer have to wear the masks, and the obligation to take tests is also eliminated.

In order to keep the minimum distance, more classrooms than usual will be made available and the number of supervisors will increase as a result.

As such, grades eight through eleven will have distance learning.

"The students look forward to the Abitur exams with a mixture of excitement and relief at the end of school," says Höhenleitner, describing the mood among his high school graduates.

Although the director of studies is still under quarantine himself, he hopes

that all of its graduates pass the Abitur.

The Dachauer Nachrichten also wishes the students every success in the final exams.

You can find more current news from the district of Dachau at Merkur.de/Dachau.