Commentary: In politics, youth last

2022-09-24T05:10:27.069Z

Commentary: In politics, youth last Created: 09/24/2022, 07:00 By: Hans Moritz Hans Moritz, Editor-in-Chief of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger. © Studio Mohr Erding The failure of education policy continues unabated in the new school year. The shortage of teachers is already making itself felt. This could at least have been cushioned, says editor-in-chief Hans Moritz in his comment on the weeke

Commentary: In politics, youth last

Created: 09/24/2022, 07:00

By: Hans Moritz

Hans Moritz, Editor-in-Chief of the Erdinger/Dorfener Anzeiger.

The failure of education policy continues unabated in the new school year.

The shortage of teachers is already making itself felt.

This could at least have been cushioned, says editor-in-chief Hans Moritz in his comment on the weekend.

The new school year is now two weeks old.

And the first fears are beginning to come true: the blatant shortage of teachers is having an impact even before the sniffling period: the first secondary schools have to temporarily switch to short lessons.

All-day classes keep shrinking to half-day classes.

It's no wonder: The supply of teachers was also sewn on edge in Erding right from the start, and the school authority warned of bottlenecks as a precaution during the summer holidays.

However, one would not have expected there that they would occur so early.

The hapless and underambitious Minister of Education Michael Piazolo from the Free Voters tries to talk his way out of it when he rants that there have never been so many teachers in Bavaria as there are this year.

What he doesn't mention is that the need for teaching is higher than ever, not least because of the bridging classes for Ukrainian children.

And: In Bavaria alone, 2900 teachers are currently not even allowed to enter their schools - because they are pregnant.

That should change from October 4th – three weeks after the start of classes.

Pregnant teachers are then free to stand in front of the class with a baby bump.

You have to let the schedule go on your tongue: Markus Söder's cabinet made the decision in (!) the first week of school.

Why not earlier so that schools and school authorities could have queried and planned?

The government met for the first time after the summer break.

This snoring of CSU and FW is outrageous.

But not only when it comes to supplying teachers, as in the times of Corona, the following applies: youth last.

The federal government originally intended to include Covid in the list of particularly serious infectious diseases - in a row, yes indeed, with plague and cholera.

On the one hand, this would have meant that the children would have had to stay at home if there was a vague suspicion of a corona infection.

And they would have needed a certificate that they were no longer infectious and allowed to go back to school.

That would not only have overwhelmed the practices, it would have been a throwback to the darkest times of the pandemic: the world of work continues, the children are locked away.

The fact that this did not happen is thanks to down-to-earth ministers of education, such as Karin Prien from Schleswig-Holstein.

Nothing was heard from Piazolo in this direction.

Was clear.

Again: bet, six.

Oh yes, Söder announced on Wednesday that primary and middle school teachers would soon be better paid, comparable to their colleagues from secondary schools and high schools.

Please don't be fooled: That's not insight, that's his naked fear of the voters being punished.

To his consolation: You can learn from defeats.