Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Education Theresa Schopper definitely wants to avoid school closures like in the Corona lockdown in the future. Shortly before the end of the school year, she exchanged views with teachers, doctors and experts from the state health department. “Everyone involved in the consultations agreed: School closures have serious effects on children and young people, which is why they must no longer happen,” said the Greens politician on Monday in Stuttgart. “If there are no more serious changes, the general guideline is that the new school year will begin the way the old school year ended.”
This means, for example, that school trips can be planned at home and abroad. But there are also changes compared to the current school year, in which there were a number of corona relief measures. “The previous regulation that the minimum number of prescribed written performance assessments may be undercut is no longer applicable.” For the final exams, however, additional tasks for a selection by the teachers would also be worked out in the next school year. Whether there can be a mask requirement in schools again if the corona situation escalates depends on the decisions of the federal government.
Schopper thanked teachers and school administrations who had managed another “exceptional school year”. “Unfortunately, the challenges will not decrease in the coming school year,” predicted the minister. This is also due to the fact that a strong increase in refugee children and young people from Ukraine can be expected in schools after the summer holidays. The schools could be proud that they “accepted, integrated and schooled almost noiselessly” more than 20,000 children and young people. Schopper recently explained that this number will possibly rise to over 30,000 in the new school year.