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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Thuringia's Minister of Education Helmut Holter (left) has defended the current corona mask requirement in the classroom against criticism.
"A safe school operation will not work without a mask," he said on Wednesday in Erfurt.
Immediately beforehand, Holter had received around 42,000 signatures from the initiator of a petition directed against the requirement for students to wear a mask during class.
The minister emphasized that the wearing of masks by young students as well is an indispensable component in the state's hygiene concept for schools in order to ensure as much face-to-face teaching as possible. It is undisputed that mouth and nose protection is a burden for the students. But there is no sensible alternative. The Weimar Administrative Court only argued similarly on Tuesday and rejected an urgent application against the mask requirement at Thuringian schools.
The initiator of the petition, Nick Stude, said it was necessary that students could go to school again free.
Children and adolescents who themselves or their parents are afraid of being infected with Corona in school could wear such protection even without the mask requirement.
Stude appealed to Holter to disregard the rules that might soon apply nationwide and to lift the mask requirement in Thuringia.
State Secretary for Education Julia Heesen rejected this sharply.
"That is not compatible with the rule of law," she said.
All teachers are also expected to obey the law.
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