It is a precise objection to Jens Spahn's gloomy announcement, what Germany's students can bloom again in autumn and winter after a summer with holidays almost without corona.
In view of the fourth wave that he is sure to expect, there will probably be changing lessons again for millions of children and young people, the Federal Minister of Health announced at the weekend.
It is not enough to thank the scientists at the National Academy Leopoldina for relentlessly assessing the sometimes dramatic psychosocial and educational consequences of the corona pandemic for kindergarten children and schoolchildren in their new statement for the political decision-makers in the federal and state levels. They also listed the educational deficits, which increased again during the Corona crisis.
It must not and cannot be that, as in the year and a half before, in the case of new outbreaks of infection due to the highly contagious Delta virus variant, politicians can no longer think of anything more than to close schools and daycare centers to a large extent. It must now be urgent to keep educational establishments open in face-to-face operations through protective measures that are initiated in good time and with teachers and educators who are vaccinated until autumn. A goal that also unites the ministers of education and that they can hopefully enforce against Spahn and Co.