From Hildburg Bruns
After Pentecost, compulsory testing in Berlin schools will be lifted! After the mask requirement was abolished at the beginning of April, the obligation to test twice a week will no longer apply in the coming week.
From Tuesday (June 7th), tests for the corona virus will still be possible on a voluntary basis. This was decided by the education administration with a view to the current pandemic situation after consultations in the hygiene advisory board.
If desired, the schools can carry out voluntary rapid tests two days a week and provide a third additional test kit for Saturdays.
“Schools are a particularly sensitive place and there are different perspectives in the school community on how to deal with the pandemic. Knowing this, we are making an offer that provides additional security,” says Senator for Education Astrid-Sabine Busse (64).
“The state parents’ committee was actually mostly in favor of a continuation, but we can live well with the compromise of being voluntary,” says Norman Heise (44) from the state parents’ committee to the BZ “And also with the announcement by the school administration that, if the worst comes to the worst, we can return to it at any time .”
At the end of May, the administrative court had rejected urgent applications against the Senate order. There is no impermissible unequal treatment of students with employees in office buildings – there has long been no compulsory testing.
The 3G rule for people outside the school, including parents, will also be lifted on June 7th.
For the autumn, the school administration will be so stocked up that sufficient test kits will be available again.
