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Dresden (dpa / sn) - Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has defended the opening of primary schools and daycare centers in the Free State from next Monday and given an outlook on further easing.
"If we are at an incidence of below 35, further steps can be taken to relax," he said on Wednesday evening at RTL / ntv.
We will talk about this in March.
But you have to be careful.
The only chance is to avoid contacts and mobility in principle.
With a view to the opening of day care centers and elementary schools, he spoke in the evening, among other things, in the "MDR" -Sachsenspiegel.
Various objects of protection have to be taken into account.
The mental health of children, adolescents and families is just as important as the aspect of education.
«Many children look forward to it.
Children need children, we want to create this opportunity now. "
The opening will be accompanied by a test regime.
If the number of infections increases again, the measures will be scaled back.
The opening planned for next Monday is causing a mixed echo in Saxony: The education union GEW accused the government of “pushing ahead without any reason” and “wanting to secure a podium in the opening competition”.
The GEW considers the opening in the restricted regular operation to be premature and called for the number of infections to be reduced first.
The teachers' association spoke of an "ambivalent feeling".
The educators wanted to return to face-to-face teaching, but were particularly concerned about their own health and that of the children in view of the mutations.
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On Tuesday, Minister of Culture Christian Piwarz (CDU) announced the opening of daycare centers and primary schools in restricted regular operations from February 15.
The principle of strict separation of groups and classes with fixed reference persons applies.
The timetable should be finally decided this Friday when Saxony's cabinet adopts the new Corona Protection Ordinance.
The partial opening is not going it alone, emphasized the Ministry of Culture and referred to Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hesse, where lessons take place in a restricted form.
Most daycare centers and schools in Germany have, however, been closed since mid-December or are only there for emergency care in very limited operations.
There are exceptions for graduating classes: You returned to secondary schools and grammar schools in Saxony on January 18.
In Saxony, compulsory attendance for primary school students is to be suspended for the time being.
Parents can thus decide for themselves whether to send their child to school.
The big question now is how many parents are using it.
The Education and Science Union (GEW) assumes that most parents will accept the offer.
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On Wednesday evening, Kretschmer considered the first easing agreed at the conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the Prime Minister to be responsible.
The hairdressers, who are allowed to reopen from March 1st, could prepare for it.
The “Click and Collect” pick-up service should be available in retail outlets as early as next Monday.
Saxony was the only federal state that had not yet allowed this service.
In a statement in the State Chancellery that evening, Kretschmer did not want to speculate how the easing would continue.
“It is very difficult to be certain at this time.
Caution is advised. "
There is a desire for normalcy, he said.
«This virus does not take our needs into account.
We have to behave so wisely and be so serene that we always do what is currently justifiable. "
As an important result of the conference, Kretschmer named the fact that Economic Aid III can be applied for immediately.
Those affected would have waited a long time for this.
Many would have run out of money: "This is really no fame sheet and the federal government has also admitted that."
Now there is another perspective.
But it is not okay that it took so long.
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