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Most of the schoolchildren in Bavaria will be sitting alone in front of their school supplies from tomorrow. Because only for final classes and in vocational schools there are distance classes. For the rest of the students, “distance learning” is popular, a small but important difference in the vocabulary of the Minister of Education, Michael Piazolo (Free Voters). In a letter from the Ministry of Culture yesterday, it says: “The last day of class before Christmas is already Tuesday. Mandatory distance learning takes place in the final classes, including the Q11 of primary school.” Not for all other classes. As in the first confinement, the practice and deepening must be done at home, explains the minister.
Green accuse Piazolo of “surrendering”
For Max Deisenhofer, education policy spokesman for the Green parliamentary group, the minister gave up. He told the BR that after eight months of pandemic, distance learning was not taking place across the board, that surprised him. “Apparently the ministry still doesn’t trust schools or its own Mebis learning platform to manage digital lessons,” says Deisenhofer. This is particularly annoying for all teachers who have already prepared distance lessons in recent days. Instead of a laptop and leather pants, they would remain worksheets and leather pants in Bavarian schools, says Deisenhofer, annoyed.
Schools Advertise and Cancel Classes Online
Many schools in Bavaria had already prepared and announced online lessons. They are now paddling and informing parents that there will be no video classes. Many school principals are upset. A school principal in Upper Bavaria writes on Facebook: It’s “biting the edge of the table, we have everything ready and we could start the remote lesson perfectly prepared on Wednesday, and then the information from the Ministry of Culture arrives 36 hours in advance” . Parents also lack understanding. In some schools, which are located in the access points of Corona, distance lessons are already taught. But that also ends tomorrow.
Ministry of Culture does not want to prohibit anything
At the Ministry of Education, people are surprised by unstable schools. A spokesman said attempts were made to ease pressure on the schools. Plus, it’s only three school days. They do not want to prohibit distance learning. We may have to go back to the directors and inform them.
Teachers Association criticizes “catastrophic crisis management”
The Ministry of Culture is not only criticized for the issue of distance learning. Heinz-Peter Meidinger, president of the Association of German Teachers, accuses state governments and school ministries of “partially catastrophic crisis management” in the corona pandemic.
Meidinger said they had not prepared for a new phase of alternate lessons, for example, increasing the speed of the digital modernization of schools. “Passauer Neue Presse “.” That is now taking its toll. “There is often a lack of fast internet.” When it comes to providing schools with a fast internet, we are not in much better position than we were in March of this year. And fast internet is the basic requirement for video conferencing systems to work, “Meidinger said. The president of the Association of German Teachers is calling for a general concept” how the quality of education and future opportunities for our children and young people in times pandemic “.
State parent association with a fire letter in November
In November, the state association of secondary school parents also complained in a fiery letter to Education Minister Piazolo that the schools were in “digital chaos.” Schools also lack technical support.
