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Kindergartens and lower grade schools will remain open at closure for now. However, separate rules are not excluded.
A second lockdown will take effect in Austria on Tuesday. While high school and college students have to switch to distance learning, kindergartens and lower grades remain open. For now. The Minister of Education can, in fact, write separate rules.
Sebastián Kurz also indicated at the press conference that the school sector would have to “monitor the situation” and possibly reevaluate it, depending on how the number of corona cases develops in the coming weeks.
The minister of education can establish separate rules
The mask requirement for students aged 10-14 will also be expanded. The Minister of Education, Heinz Faßmann, also has the option to enact special regulations in schools. It already did so in March when the national shift to distance education.
State councils recently called for schools to remain open. There is also great concern among teacher representatives. “The whole society has to learn to live with this virus. But this requires many protective measures, also in schools. Staff representatives and trade unionists from all kinds of schools have thought about supporting a defenseless government with proposals in the interest of all school partners “. Thomas Bulant, federal chairman of all Social Democratic teacher representatives, said in a broadcast.
Concern for teacher representatives
Vorarlberg APS union president Alexandra Loser suggests that pregnant colleagues should be able to move to the home office if the number of infections continues to rise. “Feedback from health authorities or information on test results is too often too late or does not arrive. Therefore, to-do lists are based on an uncertain planning basis. The minister must find a remedy. within the government, “says Loser.
Patricia Gsenger, president of the FSG AHS union, demands the following in an open letter to the minister: “The nationwide use of rapid antigen tests and the taking of samples by mobile test equipment should lead to a massive increase in capabilities. We are asking for a uniform hotline at the national level (instead of 1450) for schools only and the alignment of the school traffic light to the Corona traffic light at the district level, because schools and their people are not islands. “
