Gew fights at an early start: students and teachers lose!

Gew fights at an early start: students and teachers lose!

In the debate for the beginning of the summer holidays in Germany, the GEW union in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is concerned about a possible start in June. The state chairman Ulrike von Malottki expresses that an early start to the holiday could bring health and pedagogical disadvantages. This reports n-tv.de . According to her reasoning, a school start in August, which follows the start of a vacation in June, could be shaped by high temperatures, which in turn could lead to heat -free and would therefore be lost lesson.

In addition, a holiday start before July 1 is often perceived as economically motivated and is not in the best interest of the students and teachers. This year, the summer vacation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania begins on July 29, which is seen by many as a late date. A look into the future shows that the start of the holiday will change in the coming years: in 2026 it will start on July 13, 2027 on July 5, 2028 on June 26 and 2029 on June 18th.

The problem of the holiday planning

The GEW is committed to ensuring that the holiday periods or individual decisions are possible for schools. This problem is increased by the different holiday periods for general education and vocational schools in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which presents teachers with school-age children. The GEW criticizes that a previously defined vacation before July 1st economic interests serves and not the well -being of the students and teachers. In the coming time, it is expected that general school holiday planning will be gradually moved closer to June, which could further enlarge the existing gap between the school types. In the school year 2028/29, this gap could be up to four weeks.

This situation makes vocational schools unattractive for younger teachers and could give further buoyancy to the shortage of teachers. The Ministry of Education of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is largely removed from the discussion and it is feared that the existing interdisciplinary structure will not respond sufficiently to these challenges.

A look at the structure of the education system

The German educational server offers comprehensive information on different fields of education and shows the challenge that the different handling of holiday season brings. This information and many other aspects of the German Education System are systematically processed by the Kultusministerkonferenz conference and can be called up on the Internet. Education in Germany is subject to regional differences that have arisen by agreements such as the Hamburg Agreement of 1964 in order to avoid traffic jams and bottlenecks for holiday accommodations, such as kmk.org emphasized.

The discussion about the holiday season clearly shows that there is a need for action here. The GEW is not tired of fighting for a fairer solution that takes into account both the needs of the teachers and those of the students. After all, the focus of the learners must be the focus, and this can only be guaranteed with a well thought -out holiday planning.