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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The Deputy Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Joachim Stamp (FDP), has put his guarantee that there will be no state-wide school and daycare closings with him.
For the educational part of his earlier statement, he admitted that he had to relativize this guarantee “to a certain extent”, said the family minister in Düsseldorf on Wednesday.
The CDU / FDP state government had previously decided that all students in North Rhine-Westphalia would go to distance learning after the Christmas break from next Monday.
The lessons in the classrooms will be suspended until January 31 - this also applies to final classes.
The country is faced with a new situation in the corona infection situation, said Stamp.
Even science does not yet know what a "fire accelerator" the mutated virus that has emerged in England could be.
"We don't have a script when it comes to the pandemic," said Stamp, who is also the family minister.
"There are always impacts that we did not expect".
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School Minister Yvonne Gebauer (FDP) also admitted a change in her previous statements.
She fought vehemently for teaching in schools, she said.
"This fight was the right one, I will continue it," she said.
"Children and young people suffer most from this pandemic."
The social life that young people need should not be allowed to wither.
In view of the infection situation, however, NRW supported the federal-state decision to close schools to a large extent.