Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – The new North Rhine-Westphalian school minister Dorothee Feller (CDU) informed on Thursday (1 p.m.) about the general conditions for the coming school year. After six and a half weeks of summer vacation, classes will start again on August 10th for most of the approximately 2.5 million schoolchildren in North Rhine-Westphalia. Only the approximately 171,000 first graders are allowed to start school one day later.
It is eagerly awaited whether Corona rules will be defined again for the new school year. It is clear that the children and young people will be taught in their schools again and not in distance classes at home. That was not always guaranteed in the pandemic years. At the beginning of April, the obligation to wear masks in schools in North Rhine-Westphalia was dropped and shortly afterwards, at the beginning of the Easter holidays, the obligation to carry out tests as well.
The new minister has brought forward the traditional school year press conference by a week so teachers, parents and students can prepare for what’s to come sooner than usual. NRW was the first federal state to start the summer holidays at the end of June.