Private schools and the pandemic: How expensive boarding schools benefit from Corona – Politics

They have two strenuous but successful years behind them at the Birklehof. Of course, Corona has also left its mark on the traditional private high school with boarding school in the Black Forest. But many of the problems that the pandemic posed to normal schools did not occur at all or only to a lesser extent: Homeschooling in particular, which isolated students from their friends and made parents desperate, but also the lack of computers, good internet, regular internet Instruction. Or the risk of carrying the virus home from school. None of this was a big issue at the Birklehof.