On the days surrounding the G-7 summit, schoolchildren throughout the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district should generally go to distance learning. The measure should apply from June 24th to 28th for three school days and is primarily necessary because of the expected severe impairment of road and rail traffic during the summit, the Bavarian Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday on request. There will usually be no emergency care. Here, too, the ministry cited the traffic situation and security measures as justification.
The school supervisory board and the schools were informed of the decision on Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture coordinated closely with the Ministry of the Interior and the local municipalities. It is a very short period for which the schools can now prepare four months, it said. “Our schools have shown in the last two years that they can make the switch to distance learning very professionally, even at short notice.”
For students who commute to school from or to other districts, solutions could be found, for example, about leave of absence. The central Bavaria-wide final exams should take place in attendance.
There were first reactions on Twitter – and clear displeasure. School closures due to Corona should be avoided at all costs, wrote one user. “However, if the G 7 come to the small town, then school is obviously not that important.”
At the invitation of Germany, the heads of state and government of seven leading industrial nations will meet at Schloss Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen from 26 to 28 June. The top-class meeting took place there for the first time in 2015.