Bavaria expects 100,000 refugees from Ukraine. Among them are already many children who are to learn at the schools in the Free State. But how?
No one knows how many will have fled in the end. But one thing is certain: At the moment, it is mainly women and children from the Ukraine to Germany. Children who should and want to go to school. The most important goal now is to make offers to everyone as quickly as possible, he said bavaria Minister of Education Michael Piazolo on Tuesday after the cabinet meeting in Munich. The current capacities in the schools are unlikely to be sufficient for this.
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Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) has to plan the integration in schools.
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“I firmly believe that we will have to create more,” said Piazolo. More classes, for example, with additional teachers. Not only do they want to involve teachers who have fled Ukraine, they also want to encourage retirees. At the request of our editors, a ministry spokeswoman added that funds were also available for third parties to carry out language training and intercultural projects.
Compulsory schooling applies after three months at the latest
Children and young people from the Ukraine are currently being admitted to special classes for pupils with a refugee or migration background throughout Bavaria. Many of these offers still exist from the years 2015 and 2016, when mainly children from Syria, Afghanistan and the Balkans came to Bavaria.
Normally, schooling is compulsory for children from refugee families after three months in Bavaria. The state government wants to make this possible for young Ukrainians who want to go to class earlier. A separate staff unit for “refugee integration” was set up in the Ministry of Education.
The offers for Ukrainian children and young people – language courses for preschoolers, German classes or language support in addition to regular lessons – should be available at all types of schools, including secondary schools and high schools. The ministry assumes that the educational level of the students from Ukraine is higher than that of the arrivals in 2015 and 2016. Many of the Ukrainian children were probably at high school in their home country. Five years ago, on the other hand, the integration measures had mainly taken place in primary and secondary schools.
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According to the ministry, the school should be a “safe place” with reliable structures for the refugees and in this way stabilize the psychologically stressed and traumatized children. “The teachers in particular are reliable first reference persons for the pupils.” In addition, the more than 970 school psychologists and the 1800 counseling teachers should help in personal crises.
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By the weekend, around 10,000 people from the Ukraine had arrived in Bavaria.
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