Corona has had a major impact on the daily lives of students. Now that the Corona measures have been lifted, we need to talk about how the school has done over the past three years and what needs to be rehashed – in the classrooms, but also in the political arena.
The city council group Freie Wähler and FÜR Karlsruhe asks two school principals how they experience the consequences of Corona in everyday school life and where the current problems for students and education lie. Guests will be Principal Klaus Kühn from the Pestalozzischule Durlach and Vice Principal Harald Bertram from the Goethe Gymnasium Karlsruhe. Group Executive Director Micha Schlittenhardt hosts the 31st School to Corona podcast episode.
“The school closings were a mistake in that way,” Principal Kühn says, “and we’re still feeling the effects.” Not only has the area of learning and knowledge suffered, but there are also lags in the emotional and social areas. Rules of living together and working together have been forgotten and need to be brought back to consciousness: “It is also very important that young people can live in presence at school, because contacts and friends with classmates are incredibly important,” says Klaus Kühn from the Pestalozzi School. In the area of relationships, more must now be invested again.
However, there are differences in the types of schools: “At our high school, the majority of students were very happy that school was starting again. There were problems in the social and emotional areas, but we were able to cushion these problems relatively well through various campaigns and programs such as Rückenwind,” says vice principal Harald Bertram.
Another difference between the types of schools is the shortage of teachers, says Klaus Kühn. While most of the lessons can be covered at grammar schools, even the compulsory lessons are cancelled at intermediate and vocational schools: “Education as a whole is simply a very important topic, where it is actually already necessary to consider what needs to be done to counteract the lack of education. I already see a threat there that also has social effects,” says Klaus Kühn.
Which possibilities principal Klaus Kühn of the Pestalozzischule Durlach and Konrektor Harald Bertram of the Goethe Gymnasium see, how one can come to more educational justice and which concrete desires they address to the policy, see them on the YouTube account of the free voters FOR Karlsruhe or as Podcast.
