Thousands of children in northern Germany became the first in Europe to begin a new school year today after months of curtailed hours over the coronavirus pandemic.
With children in Hamburg to also return to school later this week and Berlin to follow next week, a debate is now growing over whether full-time school is realistic as infection numbers rise in Germany above 500 per day again. "The children need to be present in school because we have to prevent more lost time," Steffen Kaestner, headteacher of the CJD Jugenddorf-Christophorus school in Rostock, told AFP.
"We hope everything will go well. We just don't know where they have been on holiday," Mr Kaestner confessed. "Of course we are aware of the danger, but we have very few new infections in our region," said Kay Czerwinski, a member of a local parents' association. Government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer also came out in favour of masks today, telling a press conference the measure "sounds like a reasonable consideration".
But Heinz-Peter Meidinger, head of the DPhV teachers' union, fears "enormous chaos" because of a "lack of preparation" in schools.
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