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Elisabeth Rosenberger of the Federal Association of Parents of the Associations of Parents in the Middle and High Schools (BEV) criticizes the friction between the authorities. The situation is quite different depending on the federal state, but in Vienna, for example, the interaction between education and health authorities and schools is still not going well.
Y: Schools would be overwhelmed with additional forms and lists. “The bureaucratic effort is so great that some people say: if a child has a cold, I don’t even report it as a suspected case.”
The highest representative of parents in compulsory schools, Evelyn Kometter, complains that in some schools no one feels responsible for informing parents about Covid-19.
Especially in small, self-managed schools there is a lack of communication, and that is more problematic for them than waiting a day or two for a test result, as they say is currently the case outside of Vienna.
Healthy quarantined teachers should teach online
Due to the quarantine of teachers, there are occasional problems in several federal states to keep the lessons going, Kimberger reports. “If three teachers fail in a small school, the regular lessons can no longer be organized.”
AHS unionist Herbert Weiß (FCG) is also familiar with these cases; the problem in this context is mostly the sometimes long wait times until the test results are returned. “One would have to try to clear this up quickly,” he demands that suspected cases be cleared up quickly in all federal states.
According to parent spokeswoman Kometter, teachers who are sent to preventive quarantine simply have to take their lessons online from home.
During the switch to distance learning in the spring, flexibility was required on the part of students and parents, and teachers should now show this too.
The main teachers union, Kimberger, can definitely get something out of this lawsuit. Teachers in quarantine could, for example, “participate very well in the educational work of schools” digitally, as could people at risk who are exempted from teaching in the classroom.
