Education – Berlin – Berlin is not planning any earlier Christmas holidays – Education

Berlin (dpa / bb) – No earlier Christmas holidays are planned in Berlin. In North Rhine-Westphalia, school ends two days earlier due to the corona pandemic. In order to give the families the most carefree Christmas possible, the decision was made to open December 21st and 22nd, said NRW School Minister Yvonne Gebauer (FDP) on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Berlin Senate Department for Education said on Thursday that it is currently not intended to bring the Christmas holidays forward. However, they start in Berlin on December 21st. “So we’re starting earlier than planned in North Rhine-Westphalia anyway,” said the spokesman.

The chairman of the Berlin State Parents’ Committee, Norman Heise, told the “Tagesspiegel” newsletter “Checkpoint” (Thursday) that an earlier start of the vacation is not easy for all families for organizational reasons: “With some it will meet with approval and with others Confuse planning. “

Pankow’s health and education city councilor, Torsten Kühne (CDU), told the “Checkpoint” that it “makes more sense to extend the holidays so that, conversely, infections from the family environment are not carried into schools after Christmas. I would be at risk for estimate larger. ” The spokesman for the education administration simply said: “We are observing the infection process very closely and preparing for all eventualities.”

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