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Elementary school introduces a four-day week – due to a shortage of teachers

Shortage of teachers in the Ammerland district: According to several media reports, the Wiefelstede primary school is now introducing a four-day week for more than 300 pupils.

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Elementary school introduces a four-day week – due to a shortage of teachers

Shortage of teachers in the Ammerland district: According to several media reports, the Wiefelstede primary school is now introducing a four-day week for more than 300 pupils. "Our teaching provision looks very bad, and we are not in a position to provide all classes with the same lessons," wrote headmistress Doris Tapken in a letter to parents, according to reports.

The reason for the cancellation of classes is a ban on employment that was issued to two pregnant teachers. They are not allowed to teach because they could get infected with Corona. In addition, another teacher is absent in the long term.

Last Friday, the school management reportedly announced that a substitution plan would come into effect from this Tuesday. This provides that one of the years 2 to 4 must stay at home per day. Because there are five classes in the first year, these are spread over two days.

There should be childcare at school for children who cannot be cared for at home. It was initially unclear how long the regulation should apply.

The state parent council of Lower Saxony had recently spoken of a “desolate situation” in schools in the state and called for changes. The number of lessons at schools in Lower Saxony has fallen to its lowest level since statistics began 20 years ago, as Minister of Education Julia Willie Hamburg (Greens) recently announced. The value determined from the ratio of students to teacher hours was 96.3 percent as of September 8, 2022 (previous year: 97.4 percent).

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