DER TAGESSPIEGEL: the return of Saturday classes in Germany?
date：2020-04-21 16:41author：小编source：DER TAGESSPIEGELviews：
The gradual opening of schools poses many problems. At best, classes should only be attended by 15 students and initially only the older age groups start. Since the teachers cannot divide up and the lessons have to be stretched due to the necessary distance rules, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education Karin Prien (CDU) brings lessons back on Saturday.
The six-day school week was until the end of the GDR in 1990 and in the Federal Republic until 1972. There were exceptions in many federal states, especially some private schools still have Saturday classes to this day. It was only in 2018 that the Protestant grammar school for the Gray Monastery in Wilmersdorf abolished the six-day week - partly because the requests for exemption from teaching on Saturday had piled up and teachers had insisted on two days off.
In order to be able to go back to schooling as many pupils as possible, it would be conceivable that classes could also take place on a Saturday, Prien said on Deutschlandfunk. There must also be summer academies "which we also organize from the state side so that schoolchildren can catch up on their learning deficit - which will inevitably arise."
The president of the German Teachers' Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, does not believe in the return of Saturday classes: "Only the proposal with the shorter summer vacation." he told Tagesspiegel. "What we need is an overall concept." That includes finding out how many pupils have been left behind due to a lack of support in "home schooling". In addition, all curricula would now need to be reviewed and what material needs to be repeated.
Source: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/notfallmassnahmen-in-der-coronakrise-samstags-in-die-schule-sonntags-kommen-pakete/25756974.html
The six-day school week was until the end of the GDR in 1990 and in the Federal Republic until 1972. There were exceptions in many federal states, especially some private schools still have Saturday classes to this day. It was only in 2018 that the Protestant grammar school for the Gray Monastery in Wilmersdorf abolished the six-day week - partly because the requests for exemption from teaching on Saturday had piled up and teachers had insisted on two days off.
In order to be able to go back to schooling as many pupils as possible, it would be conceivable that classes could also take place on a Saturday, Prien said on Deutschlandfunk. There must also be summer academies "which we also organize from the state side so that schoolchildren can catch up on their learning deficit - which will inevitably arise."
The president of the German Teachers' Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, does not believe in the return of Saturday classes: "Only the proposal with the shorter summer vacation." he told Tagesspiegel. "What we need is an overall concept." That includes finding out how many pupils have been left behind due to a lack of support in "home schooling". In addition, all curricula would now need to be reviewed and what material needs to be repeated.
Source: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/notfallmassnahmen-in-der-coronakrise-samstags-in-die-schule-sonntags-kommen-pakete/25756974.html
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