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Regular school operations after Christmas do not begin until January 11. The Education Ministry said that the Education Ministry wanted to make an offer to students, parents and teachers on January 7 and 8 to be tested for an infection with the coronavirus. If necessary, children are cared for in schools as they were during the closure.
It is not yet clear if there is a mandatory test for teachers. In either case, students and parents are not required to take the exam; however, high school students in particular must be explicitly addressed. Anyone who needs care on January 7 and 8 can send their children to school. Regular lessons will not take place on these two days.
The tests themselves are doing something too: a new generation of tests will be used that no longer have to go as deep down the nose or throat.
Teachers against the obligation of proof and vaccination
As of January 8, the government announced that all occupational groups related to the body will be tested for Sars-CoV-2 infection every two weeks. Teachers, however, resist this regulation. “I see him very, very skeptical,” Chief Teacher Paul Kimberger (FCG) told the APA. More proof is absolutely necessary, but you want to rely on conviction rather than duress. A disputed mandatory vaccination for teachers is currently unthinkable for him.
More than 70 percent participated in the mass teacher testing on a voluntary basis, Kimberger emphasized, emphasizing the great commitment of teachers. In the total population it was just under 23 percent. Furthermore, mass testing can only contribute to safe school operations anyway if students are also tested. “Otherwise, it’s just a measure again.”
In addition to secondary tests, Kimberger calls for faster tests in schools so that suspected cases can be cleared up immediately. According to the Ministry of Education, rapid antigen tests have been used in schools in all federal states except Vienna for a good week. “In practice, however, that has not yet come,” says Kimberger. In addition, the president of the ARGE teachers in the GD continues to advocate that schools can switch to shift work independently.
Finally, a solution is needed for the Schlertransporte issue: It does not make much sense to observe distance rules and hygiene measures in schools when children and young people have to get to school in crowded means of transport. Kimberger also sees the need for regulation regarding the special issue of pregnant teachers: it was recently decided in parliament that pregnant women in professions with physical disabilities should be released from the beginning of the 14th week of pregnancy with full salary. “However, there are those who say that this does not affect all pregnant teachers. In my opinion, that is unacceptable.”
Kimberger currently has no sympathy for a discussion about mandatory vaccinations for teachers. It is not even clear if the vaccine only protects against the disease, but not against the transmission of the infection. “And here also for me it is about conviction and not coercion.”
