In the coming days and weeks, many students will return to class after the summer vacation. But the teachers’ union, Verband Bildung und Erbildung (VBE), does not assume that the operation will be as it was before the coronavirus pandemic. “There will be no comprehensive, comprehensive regular school operations like before Corona,” said its Federal Chairman Udo Beckmann “World”.
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Politicians have awakened an “illusion” and presented something that could be realized “which could not be implemented even if the infection rate remained the same”.
Beckmann said there was an acute shortage of teaching staff even before the corona crisis. “In spite of the recruitment of newcomers and the reactivation of older teachers from retirement, the human resources are insufficient.” Because many teachers were missing because they belonged to risk groups.
According to the VBE boss, the hygiene measures planned so far at the beginning of the school year will not be sufficient “if the health of everyone involved in school should not be exposed to an even greater risk”.
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To be planned by several federal states Mask requirement in schools Beckmann said that this was quickly required. But the implementation is then up to the teacher.
“School openings pose a high risk”
The Education and Science Union (GEW) also warned at the beginning of the new school year: “School openings pose a high risk.” Everyone involved should be careful and keep the distance requirement, said GEW boss Marlis Tepe the “Passau New Press”.
Basically, it is good that it starts again, the trade unionist said. Education is a valuable asset and it is important that children and young people can go back to school. But: “The schools now find themselves in a difficult situation when they start regular operations.” She fears that “some schools” cannot have normal regular operations.
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According to Tepe, it would have been better if the health authorities had checked all schools in advance and checked their hygiene plans. Questions should have been answered like “Are the rooms large enough?” or “Can there be sufficient ventilation?”.
Esken: “The task of distance rules is very problematic”
SPD leader Saskia Esken said the New Berlin Redaction Society: “I am holding the return to normality to the schools for an illusion and the abandonment of distance rules for very problematic. “
Teaching concepts that “restrict contacts” are necessary, said Esken with regard to the partially planned waiver of certain protective measures at schools. Shared classes, for which different groups come together for sports or foreign languages, for example, have to be in times of Coronavirus be organized differently. “In this situation, you may have to limit your options.”
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Esken also fundamentally called for further federal rights of access to education. The fact that the schools are no longer in a better position has something to do with the federalism reform and the restriction of the countries by the debt brake. Esken said: “To change that, the basic legal possibilities must be created.”
The new school year began on Monday in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as the first federal state. Classes begin in Hamburg on Thursday. Berlin, Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia will start next week.
Uno: “Disaster for an entire generation”
Many schools worldwide are closed due to the fight against the corona virus. “We are now facing a disaster for an entire generation that could waste immeasurable human potential, undermine decades of progress, and exacerbate deep-rooted inequalities,” said OneSecretary General Antonio Guterres at the opening of the UN campaign “Save our Future“.
In mid-July, schools in around 160 countries were closed. This affects more than a billion students and at least 40 million children have missed preschool.
As soon as the corona virus was under control on site, getting the students back to class as safely as possible must be a top priority, Guterres said. The advice given to parents, carers, teachers and young people is of fundamental importance.
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