A mother from Munich sent an angry letter to Michael Piazolo and Markus Söder.
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Children have to put up with a lot in the corona pandemic. The confusion at schools enrages a woman from Munich. She complains to Söder and Piazolo.
Munich – Pia Turbanisch has been giving everything for a year, trying with all her might to get her three children through the Corona * crisis in the best possible way. In view of the situation in the schools and the chaos surrounding classroom and distance teaching as well as the tests, she has now burst her collar. In a fire letter to Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) and Minister of Education Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) the Untermenzingerin lets off steam. “You have forgotten your future for Germany! The children and young people! ”Rumbles turbanly at the politicians.
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She reminds us that the next generation has no lobby: the children have to stay at home for a year, have no social contacts with friends and no development like they would during normal daycare and school hours. “Children and adolescents are probably suffering the most from the pandemic * and are losing the most,” writes the mother of three, who is also a pediatric nurse. She works part-time in a practice and there, too, has the impression that the boys and girls are particularly suffering from the crisis: “Some children just burst into tears.” Turban-style is familiar from home. Her younger sons in particular have to nibble at the situation. “Mom, when is Corona over?” A question to which the 42-year-old has no answer …
If she adds it all up, then her 14-year-old son did not see his high school from the inside for at least seven months last year, according to Turbanisch. She finds the change between homeschooling and face-to-face classes stressful, as the children have to prepare for something new every week. Your demand on politics is therefore to vaccinate teachers and educators with priority one “and finally to open schools and daycare centers”.
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A major point of criticism of the Untermenzingerin is also the confusion around the tests in the schools – a topic that will become even more important from Monday due to the new rules. Turbanisch’s big son, who is in the ninth grade at the grammar school, was only tested for the first time shortly before the Easter break – on site by a doctor. Her nine-year-old son, who is in third grade, had to test himself, however. If the mother thinks of the nasal swab with test sticks in excited children’s hands, then all she can do is shake her head. “How many of the tests do you think work and are meaningful?” She asks the politicians in her fire letter.
Your email has been in the mailboxes of the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture for some time. Was there an answer? “Of course not,” says the mother. Just as they complain on social media, many parents about the test procedure with the little ones. Diana Mihic from Poing (Ebersberg district) demands, for example, that children should be tested at home – before they climb into overcrowded school buses and meet their classmates in the playground. Mihic started an online petition: more than 14,000 people signed within a few days.
Pia Turbanisch says: “I’m slowly running out of strength.” The strength that she needs to continue to be strong for her children. *tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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