Educationalist Manfred Bönsch criticized the decision that Christmas holidays in the Corona-Pandemie preferable. “handing out Christmas Presents instead of education seems to be more important, ”said the expert.
The extension is supposed to Risk of infection to the Feast days be lowered. However, this plan can only succeed if on the additional vacation days Christmas Children and young people actually limit their contacts significantly. Bonsch: “For a supposedly safe one Christmas this decision is certainly understandable, but under the aspect of education it must be viewed absolutely critically. ”
It is an uneducated argument to which politics subordinates its actions. In 2020 “too many classes have already been canceled. With this decision, even more important learning time is now being cut, and further reductions should have been avoided if at all possible, ”said so Bonsch. After this difficult year you have to “do everything to get learning back on track”.
Bonsch: “Although the schools have been teaching face-to-face since the summer holidays, there is generally no teaching or learning time. This is simply due to the hygiene concept, which is of course important. Learning time is spent on regular airing and hand washing. ”You couldn’t afford to miss any more lessons.
Families say that
Criticism of the plans that Christmas holidays preferable, comes from the initiative “Families in the crisis“. The measure leads to massive disadvantages for many families and to further losses in education.
“This is an offer for parents who still have resources. Be it that they still have remaining vacation days or an alternative care option or that they generally have the option of being able to work from home, “says the initiative’s spokeswoman, Sina Denecke. All other families would be disadvantaged.
Even the offer of emergency care for students in grades one to six during the additional vacation day does not change that, so Denecke: “If the emergency care is designed like it was in spring, the pupils are cared for across all cohorts. All children who had to be sent to school would go to a higher level Risk of infection exposed. This is a massive inequality of treatment for families. ”A reduction in the number of schoolchildren only makes sense if not only the children, but also their parents adhere to it:“ That would mean that the families would go into quarantine at home from December 18th would have to. Before that, all errands for the Holidays have been done. I think that’s absolutely unrealistic. “
That’s what the church says
Can Christmas be saved in times of pandemics by bringing the holidays forward? Prominent figures from the churches also come to different assessments of this question. While Hanover former regional bishop Margot Käßmann im Deutschlandfunk the idea of ”contact fasting.” Christmas Hin “is questioned, another thought is in the foreground for city superintendent Rainer Müller-Brandes:” Everything that makes it possible for people to meet, including people who might otherwise be in the nursing home, is to be supported in my view. ”
Käßmann sees through the “contact fasting” expected by the students before the festival, a pressure built up, “as if everything were different from what it is in life”. The festival could not meet this expectation. You see in this year Holidays but also a chance to relieve yourself from the usual Christmas stress, explained Käßmann. Instead, people might think about what is really important in life. “Not everything has to be perfect and harmonious.”
Müller-Brandes will probably see it similarly. The city superintendent has other priorities. It is true that “keeping distance is the new commandment to love one’s neighbor”, but at the same time “it causes us human problems to keep distance permanently”. Christmas “The gap will be lifted if perhaps the grandpa comes and the grandma comes.” That is why he thinks that the political considerations are also correct with regard to early school holidays. His reflections are overgrown by a social reality that many are now too aware of Christmas Fear is: “I still consider loneliness to be a much too quiet topic in our society.”
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