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Berlin (dpa) - The education and science union (GEW) is calling for the Abitur exams to be canceled this year if necessary because of the corona pandemic.
"Should the infection rate increase as dramatically as the third wave in other neighboring European countries suggests, the countries must react flexibly and refrain from testing," said GEW boss Marlis Tepe to the editorial network Germany.
"Then, for example, the achievements from the lessons could be used as the basis for the grading."
Tepe said that if exams should be canceled due to a pandemic, the Abitur would still have to be mutually recognized by the federal states.
The Abitur 2021 needs full recognition and appreciation.
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The President of the Conference of Ministers of Education, Britta Ernst (SPD) emphasizes that schoolchildren should not suffer any disadvantages due to the corona pandemic.
"Nobody should unsettle the young people who are now about to graduate in addition to the normal nervousness of exams," says Ernst, who is also Brandenburg's Minister of Education, when asked.
She rejects the GEW demand.
Ernst emphasizes that everyone was working flat out to create safe conditions for the tests to be carried out.
With its resolution on the Abitur 2021 of January 21, the KMK agreed on a framework that ensures comparability, but creates leeway to take the restrictions of the pandemic into consideration.
"In this school year marked by the pandemic, schoolchildren should not suffer any disadvantages for their further educational biography," says Ernst.
The Hessian Minister of Education Alexander Lorz (CDU) said in the RND podcast “The School Lesson” that the Conference of Ministers of Education is assuming that the Abitur exams will take place everywhere this year.
According to him, a cancellation of exams would be to the disadvantage of the students.
“You would give the youngsters a penalty for life.
That would forever be the ones who would have taken the Corona high school diploma. "
Later, everyone should be able to proudly say: "I passed a very regular Abitur like everyone else - and that was still under pandemic conditions."
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