The Bavarian Teachers’ Association (BLLV) considers the situation in schools in the Free State to be devastating. Association President Simone Fleischmann cites the lack of 4,000 teachers at elementary, middle and special schools as the main reason. “Lessons are cancelled. Lessons are cancelled. Children are more likely to be sent home. Back and forth, the teachers are not enough for the regular offers, let alone for offers that would be urgently needed after this exhausting Corona period,” said them on Monday in Munich. “The educational string concert also attacks the core areas of teaching and the basic structures of school education.”
Fleischmann called on the state government to make education in Bavaria a top priority. A corresponding appeal has not yet been heard. The association speaks of planning at a minimum level in the new school year, which begins on Tuesday. Classes are larger, subjects such as music, art or sport are being reduced, as are offers for support and differentiation. These measures were initially at the expense of the weakest, “even though we have to make up for so many deficits in a wide variety of areas among children and young people from the two Corona years,” said Fleischmann.
In addition, there is no reliable half-day primary school if the lessons are reduced. “Children who come home from elementary school at 11.20 a.m. only make it possible for their parents to work to a limited extent.”