Hanover (dpa / lni) – Until the Christmas holidays, the schools in the city of Salzgitter will remain in alternation, but the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture is critical of this approach. “According to local estimates, there is no need to send half of all children home from schools to study there,” said Ministry spokesman Sebastian Schumacher on Monday the German press agency.
“This means that more than 7200 children and young people have to go to homeschooling, combined with all the major challenges for schools, parents and students.” Face-to-face lessons are still the best, especially for not so strong students.
Mayor Frank Klingebiel (CDU) justified the step with the fact that 27 school locations in Salzgitter had been affected by quarantine measures since the end of the autumn vacation, including 14 primary schools. “I consider the stereotypical statements of our education minister Grant Hendrik Tonne (SPD) about supposedly pandemic-proof schools for perseverance slogans that are guided more by desire than reality,” said Klingebiel of the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung”.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Culture stated: “The trend in Lower Saxony continues to develop positively.” On Monday, 518 of the more than 3,000 schools were affected by corona-related restrictions, 25 percent fewer than on November 13; at that time there were 696 schools. Currently over 83 percent of the schools are in normal operation. At 191 schools in scenario A, individual learning groups were not in face-to-face classes, 323 schools offered alternating lessons according to scenario B and 4 were completely closed due to corona.
The so-called seven-day incidence in Salzgitter was 112.2 on Monday. With such a value, scenario B actually only applies if there are quarantine measures at the specific school. Only from a value of 200 do stricter regulations such as scenario B for everyone from the seventh grade and the expansion of the mask requirement to include primary school students.
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