Pilot project to discharge the teaching staff: school health specialists at Berlin primary schools before an uncertain future
Pilot project to discharge the teaching staff: school health specialists at Berlin primary schools before an uncertain future
Injuries on the schoolyard: School health specialists relieve teaching staff, parents and emergency services
At the elementary school on Wilhelmsberg in the Alt-Hohenschönhausen district of Lichtenberg, there was a loud outcry: the school health specialist working there should go at the end of the year. So it was communicated to the schools from the ranks of the Lichtenberg district. In the meantime, headmistress Jana Reiter can breathe a sigh of relief: the financing is still secured for two years through the district budget. How it will go on is open.
"Our first goal is achieved," says Reiter. But that is only a beginning, because it wants long -term and nationwide financing. "Every school in Berlin needs a school health specialist, with a whole place," she says. Since October last year, the Lichtenberg district has been working as part of a pilot project, three health specialists who take care of six schools together. The schools were informed in June that the project would end at the end of this year. Since then, Jana Reiter has been fighting for the preservation of the school health specialists: "This is an absolutely important project, and it would be incredibly sad if it fell away."
The health force at their school would not only noticeably relieve the teaching staff, who would not have to worry about sick or injured children during the lesson. It is also a great support for the students. "Not only does she care for minor injuries, but the children can also get food and drink there," says Reiter. It is also taken care of students who have abdominal pain, for example, because they are bad at home or that they are afraid of something. "We also have to call the parents much less often, so that they can pick up their children, or an ambulance."
The headmistress wishes to be secured by the state of Berlin instead of the district, so that Berlin -wide school health specialists can be used. However, the black-red Senate does not seem to be considering this, as a current response from the education administration shows at a written request from the left-wing MP Franziska Brychcy and Hendrikje Klein. "The project of the school health specialists is a project of the Lichtenberg district office, which is not taken over by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family," it says. The education administration already covers "services in a similar context" over school helpers.
school helpers but have a completely different area of responsibility, says Reiter. This starts with the fact that they could be applied for by the schools specifically for children with an individually increased need for support. This is how Franziska Brychcy sees it. "A central difference is that school health specialists are trained children's nurse and school helpers are unskilled," says the educational policy spokeswoman for the left -wing faction in the House of Representatives. Brychcy is sobered by the response from the educational administration to your request. Because in order to counter the shortage of teachers, it also needs relief by using other professions in schools. "The Senate does not draw out all funds."
The Lichtenberger youth councilor Camilla Schuler (left) also complains about the lack of commitment from the Senate for the school health specialists in the reaction to the request. "We are not only at zero, but in the absolute minus area. A CDU-guided Senate who allegedly wants to fight child poverty and which names as the top priority has shown with this answer how little he wants to get involved in projects such as school health specialists," says Schuler. She would continue to work for the topic and expect this to do this.
Schuler confirms that the continuation of the project is financially secured in the upcoming district budget, which is currently being negotiated. She could only finally insure this if the district assembly decided to meet the budget in September. However, she also does not consider this to be a long -term solution. "It was clear from the start that the school health specialists had to be financed through the Senate in perspective," says the youth councilor. This has been communicated with the Senate Education Management since the start of the project, and the project is also accompanied by representatives of the State Commission for Child Resistance and a representative of the education administration. "
Headmistress Jana Reiter continues to hope for a nationwide financing of the school health specialists. If not through the educational management, then maybe through the health administration? "It is important to me that it is clarified who is responsible and that concrete measures are then taken to implement." Until the editorial deadline of this page, neither the education administration nor the health administration reacted to the relevant inquiries.
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