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When the number of infections increases, students and teachers have to spend their days in sometimes crowded classrooms. Ventilation is sometimes not possible there due to structural requirements.
12:53 pm, October 20, 2020
Faced with the increasing number of infections, you want Teacher and student representatives organize lessons in schools differently. “The situation in schools is getting worse,” emphasizes the one above. Teacher Representative Paul Kimberger (FCG) in an APA conversation. To alleviate the places with a narrow spatial situation, therefore, they must carry out part of the lessons in alternative places. Federal School Spokesperson Alexandra Bosek is in favor of the shift to shift work.
the bad weather they have aggravated the situation in schools, Kimberger told the APA. The number of infections in society has increased overall, it is the time of flu-like infections and students and teachers are part of their days crowded classrooms spend. Sometimes there is ventilation due to structural requirements not possible at all.
The result: “We already have many students and teachers in quarantine“, says Kimberger. In some places, therefore, there are problems keeping the lessons in order. According to figures from the Ministry of Education, the number is that of the health authorities closed classes but still manageable – it’s been in the last two weeks from 69 to 199 (with a total of 55,000 classes), a number that Kimberger seems too low. The reason for the quarantine is, of course, in most cases a long wait for the test result, which is usually negative anyway. Here the health authorities would have to be even faster and finally proceed in a uniform manner.
Alternatives are required
To reduce the number of infections in schools, Kimberger is in favor of using extra space as already vacant Municipalities event rooms or associations. This is already possible for the moment, according to the Ministry of Education, the provider of the school (and therefore the municipalities in the case of compulsory schools) would be in charge of renting them.
“If the situation worsens, one should at least consider shift work before reverting to a general lockdown situation,” Kimberger suggested for districts with particularly high numbers of infections. At the Corona traffic light of the Ministry of Education is the Possibility of distance learning and shift work with orange traffic light only intended for the advanced level. Recently, the government has emphasized over and over again that schools should remain open as long as possible.
A quick change to the generals. Shift work demands meanwhile Bosek Federal School Spokesperson of the student union related to ÖVP. Problems are not expected in the upper grades. For the younger ones, you must also have been careful in those days when they don’t really have face-to-face teaching. “Matura’s classes really have Fear of a second confinement“, he emphasizes.
He also sees the need for a change in the classroom: he pleads with the APA to Physical education restrictionwhere groups of students mingle, no one wears masks and no distance is kept. According to the traffic light crown of the Ministry of Education, classes are yellow (currently used in most schools) Gym Only allowed under certain conditions (small groups, ventilation, no contact sports).
Compliance with basic hygiene and safety measures (keeping your distance, washing your hands) works according to Bosek Secondary students pretty good, but not in the lower grades. She would like the class council to regularly remind students of the currently applicable rules and also to be informed about the infection situation at the respective school, in order to Carelessness and unfounded fears to prevent the student.
Bosek pinpoints problems when it comes to ventilation: “There is a lot of ventilation, which means the students have more colds.” Kimberger also admits that there are obviously problems here at some schools. Therefore, he would like the Ministry of Education and the Directorates of Education to clarify how virologists and experts recommend the best way to ventilate.
By the way, he sees the need to act not only in the schools themselves, but also also when approaching: “The school buses are totally overcrowded, so you can’t keep your distance,” he criticizes. However, there have been improvements here and there compared to the start of school, in that coordination has been improved and additional means of transportation have been made available. Austrian parents associations launched a petition on Tuesday in this context. They demand that all children have a safe seat on the school bus. Currently, children under the age of six are not counted at all, and for those under 14, three children count as two people. This means that a bus with 50 seats and 37 standing places can currently transport up to 130 children.
Meanwhile, there has been a “riot” in the government’s running of schools. Education Spokesperson FPÖ Hermann Brückl agreed in a broadcast Tuesday. “Although many school principals come up with concepts that would allow for regulated and above all safe school operations, schools are still closed time and time again.” In addition, children “often have to follow the lessons for hours with the windows open.” He demanded Minister of Education, Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) in view of the low number of infections in schools that should “allow more foresight and rationality”.
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