“Caution is the mother of the porcelain box!” This wisdom applies especially in times of Corona for the most valuable thing a country has: for its young people. But just as porcelain cannot be endlessly wrapped in cotton if it is to fulfill its practical or aesthetic purpose, so young people cannot be locked away endlessly. The latter has happened again and again over the past sixteen months. Lockdown over lockdown, school closure over school closure, zero sports club, zero youth club.
The educational gaps widened
What did that do to our children and young people? It has taken hundreds of lessons from them, it has set them back by more than half a school year, it has widened the gap between “educated” and “uneducated” children, it has deprived them of meeting their peers. It has banished them to the screen – to almost no alternative leisure pursuits and for one or the other hour of digital learning called “distance learning”. As a result, the educational gaps widened and the susceptibility to mental illnesses grew. Means against it have hardly occurred to high politics.
The entire summer of 2020 was overslept. Instead of looking for ways to get extra tuition on Saturdays or during holidays when the incidence is low; instead of equipping schools with ventilation and air purification devices, politicians could hardly think of anything other than the “vision” of even more digitization. School practitioners know that this was not the last word in wisdom. In the meantime, research into learning also knows. When the new school year starts, those responsible should finally start thinking about the principle: Classical lessons in real proximity to teachers and students cannot be replaced by anything.
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