School director Glattauer gives grades. Today: “Elementary Education Day”. Unsupervised children in kindergartens! And: “Practice in the IKEA ball pit will soon be enough.”
The (black) “day of elementary education”
So our children stay in home schooling until after the semester break. All of our children? No! Because, strangely enough, this does not apply to two groups: to children with disabilities (we already had them here) and to kindergarten children!
WHY do kindergartens have to keep open in times of a pandemic as if there were neither lockdown nor B.1.1.7? Because elementary education still does not come under “school” in Austria? Because kindergartens “belong” to the mayors who do not want to mess with working parents? Or because someone has to clean the snot when it’s hatschi during the day?
Kindergartens are educational institutions
The next Sunday is “Elementary Education Day”. We sweetly call them “kindergartens” but they are educational institutions. Preschools. They are hard educational work for underpaid, understaffed and overworked heroines of everyday life. Obviously nobody cares about their health.
Note: Not enough
Glattauer gives grades
Niki Glattauer has been a teacher in Vienna for 20 years and is currently director of the “SZ-FIDS” in Meidling. He has written 13 books on this.
Every Monday he awards a column for “today” Grades.
You can find all of his articles here.
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Alarm: children in kindergartens unsupervised!
Well, Vienna’s approx. 1,600 kindergartens will be part of the self-test gargle program for schools from Monday. A first step in the right direction! But does it go far enough? I received the angry letter from “long-serving elementary teacher” Birgit M.
Here is an excerpt: “Lockdown in kindergarten? Doesn’t exist. But God, we have families too, we too have the outrageous desire to stay healthy. There is no politician who wants to be responsible for us. That we have more work since Corona If we were shamefully understaffed before (almost at the bottom in a European comparison), we would now have to split up in order not to violate our duty of supervision. But, what a scandal! we still cannot share, which is why we are more and more children Have to leave temporarily unattended. “
I can’t do it: Children who are in kindergarten and are left unsupervised (!) Because there is a lack of staff. I call this “imminent danger”.
Note: Not enough
“Soon enough practice in the IKEA ball pit will be enough …”
Styria shows us how NOT to help elementary education. According to a state parliament resolution, groups of children can now also be led pedagogically by people without appropriate training (!). “Over 18 and in training” is enough, for example, for authorization to participate in a 30-hour crash course – and the unfinished elementary education teacher is ready.
The “Standard” quoted an angry Styrian KPÖ politician as follows: “Soon a practice in the IKEA ball pit will be enough.”
Babysitter gets more than kindergarten teacher
Reader F. writes to me: “Pay them more than € 9.50 gross per hour and give them groups with fewer than ten children! For comparison: My babysitter gets 15 euros net, and she never has more than three children at the same time. You is a kindergarten teacher who wouldn’t bring ten horses to kindergarten. “
Note: Not enough
