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The orange light means homeschooling or shift work for high school classes.
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Since the Corona traffic light will be orange in ten districts starting next week, high school classes will be shifting to shift work or homeschooling.
Starting next week, school traffic lights will be orange in ten districts. Hallein, the city of Salzburg and the land of Salzburg, St. Johann im Pongau (all of Salzburg), the city of Innsbruck and the land of Innsbruck, Schwaz, Landeck, Kufstein and Imst are affected, the Ministry of Education announced in a broadcast. .
Corona’s traffic lights are “orange” for ten districts
For high school classes, this means switching to shift work or homeschooling. “This measure refers exclusively to the upper secondary level”, emphasized the Minister of Education, Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP). On the contrary, all children between the ages of six and 14 continued to attend classes at their schools.
“The decision to switch to distance education is based on current figures on the infection rate, as well as the movements of school children with neighboring districts. Therefore, the traffic lights of Corona and the decisions of the schools do not they are always congruent. ” For him, the priority is traceability and comparability.
Nearly 1,400 students who tested positive last week
Last week (calendar week 41), according to a list from the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), nearly 1,400 children and adolescents between the ages of six and 19 tested positive. The 214 positive children ages six to nine and the 495 ages 10 to 14 are all students. Among the 670 young people between the ages of 15 and 19, however, there are also school dropouts, military and public officials and students. In total, there are around 1.1 million students in Austria.
The traffic light in orange means in schools (in addition to all the measures for the color yellow, such as the mandatory mask outside of class) for the upper classes, either homeschooling or two types of shift work. In a variant, classes can be divided into two groups who study alternately at school and at home every day. In the other, for example, only individual students, parts of classes or groups of students can be brought to school on a special occasion, for example, for practical lessons, for subjects where an exam is pending, or just classes entry and end level. The decision on the type of measure rests with the location of the school, but requires the approval of the respective directorate of education.
Current situation of the crown in Austria
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