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New crown rules in schools in North Rhine-Westphalia
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“It is no longer necessary to wear a mask in class”
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Yvonne Gebauer (FDP), Minister of Schools and Education of North Rhine-Westphalia, speaks during a press conference.
Photo: dpa / Marcel Kusch
Düsseldorf NRW School Minister Yvonne Gebauer reported on the new crown rules at NRW schools on Monday in Düsseldorf. They should be implemented on Tuesday. Some schools are against it.
All at the beginning again? Are there no masks in schools? Or just not in class? The previous regulations of the Crown Protection Ordinance and the ordinances on the care of children in day care centers, schools and facilities for the disabled end in NRW at the end of August 31.
On the same day, NRW Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann and Schools Minister Yvonne Gebauer reported on the current situation and the rules that now apply specifically in schools.
Although some schools had to be closed in the first weeks of the new school year due to Corona, the school minister is positive. “The start of the school in North Rhine-Westphalia worked well. You can say that our schools are safe places, ”Gebauer said.
According to Gebauer, the requirement of the mask in class after the break was a necessary precaution. “Two weeks after the successful start of classes, we can say that it is no longer necessary to wear a mask in class,” Gebauer said at the press conference. According to this, students only have to wear the mouth and nose cap when they are not sitting in place in the classroom, even if the minimum distance cannot be maintained there. According to the Minister of Education, this decision “has the support of a large part of the population.”
However, some schools do not share this point of view and have decided to continue the mask requirement. It will remain at the Gustav Heinemann Comprehensive School in Essen, initially until the fall break, as the school announced on Facebook. “In none of our classrooms can the minimum distance be maintained in normal classroom teaching,” the school explained.
According to the school minister, such regulation is not mandatory for children. “Everything that is decided now in the schools is voluntary. It is no longer a mask requirement, ”says Gebauer.
Meanwhile, there have also been concerns in teachers’ unions about whether the removal of the mask requirement is responsible, although the usual safety distances in classrooms cannot be observed. Pediatricians are also critical of abolition.
