Compulsory schooling for Ukrainian children - but Freising lacks teachers
Created: 07/10/2022, 19:00
By: Helmut Hobmaier
Ukrainian children in the district are taught in 21 welcome classes.
This should now become "bridge classes".
However, there is a lack of teachers.
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Ukrainian children are to be taught in bridging classes in the Freising district from September - but there are no teachers for that.
Freising
– After the strong influx of refugees from the Ukraine, things have calmed down considerably in the meantime: the flow of refugees is ebbing.
However, 1,763 refugees are still registered in the district, including more than 700 children and young people.
Most of them will be required to attend school in the coming school year – a major challenge.
The schools are already suffering from an acute shortage of teachers.
concept expires
In the Freising district, there are now 21 welcome classes for Ukrainian schoolchildren at elementary, middle and secondary schools as well as at grammar schools.
In order to be able to school the children, everything that could teach was mobilized – including Ukrainian teachers.
Susanne Zottmann, personal advisor to the district administrator, reports: "However, this concept will expire at the end of the current school year.
From September, Ukrainian elementary school students will be integrated into the normal classes.” So-called “bridging classes” are then to be created at the secondary schools.
However, the provision of the necessary personnel could “pose a very big challenge”, as Zottmann emphasizes.
Ambitious plans
As a matter of fact.
The necessary teachers for the teaching model are simply not available, as senior director of studies Andrea Bliese from Camerloher-Gymnasium confirms.
Although enough teachers could be mobilized for the – rather provisional – welcome classes, many of them may not be sufficiently qualified for the bridging classes.
The concept of these bridging classes provides a tight teaching concept that is based on the German curriculum.
In the bridging classes, for example, ten hours a week of German as a foreign language and nine hours of German and math are to be taught.
Two bridge classes
Around 40 Ukrainian children are currently being taught at the Camerloher Gymnasium.
Most of them want to stay at the school, some will come from elementary schools in the next school year, so that headmistress Bliese expects about 40 children for two bridging classes in September.
The necessary teachers are not yet available.
Like all grammar schools, you can only “go on the search”, as Bliese says.
"We just have to try."
Bliese does not believe that part-time employees will increase or that retirees will come back from retirement.
This idea from the Ministry of Education "does not work," according to the headmistress.
By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
The situation in general has eased: for example, all gymnasiums in which war refugees were housed are again available for school operations.
In the district of Freising, both gymnasiums have now been given up due to the declining access to schools in order to enable schools to run again.
The government of Upper Bavaria only assigns a few Ukrainian refugees to the district of Freising.
In the week before last, 17 refugees arrived, a week later there were just ten.
They were accommodated in the decentralized refugee accommodation in the district of Freising.
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1763 refugees, including more than 700 children and young people
Currently 1763 (1013 adults) war refugees are registered in the district of Freising.
63 people have left the district – at least officially.
According to the district office, these can be people who have moved or have left the country for good.
You can find more current news from the district of Freising at Merkur.de/Freising.
