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Hanover (dpa / lni) - The Lower Saxony sports teachers association calls for part of the federal-state “tuition billion” to be used for school sports.
Because of the corona pandemic, many schoolchildren had “considerable learning deficits and deficits in the motor area,” said the Lower Saxony state association in the German Sports Teachers Association on Monday.
To deal with these deficits, he also suggests a third sport school lesson.
For example, many swimming pools were largely closed in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic - with devastating consequences for children.
There were hardly any swimming lessons in Lower Saxony.
It is to be expected that there will be “severe drops in the ability of primary school pupils to swim, which can be improved anyway”.
In cooperation with the sports clubs, swimming courses could be set up during school hours, during holidays and on weekends, but the schools needed swimming times, teaching hours and money, according to the sports teachers.
According to the announcement, part of this could come from the so-called tuition billion.
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The federal-state funding program comprises a total of two billion euros, half of which is intended for tutoring and support programs for schoolchildren in the states in order to mitigate the consequences of the corona.
The other half is earmarked for topping up various social programs in order to cushion the social and psychological consequences of the pandemic for children and young people.
Physical education has not yet been considered in the “tuition billion”.
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