Too little digital – NEOS demands educational institutions all day long

“It’s much more banal: schools should have a common open space with a high-quality range of services and a legal right to an all-day offer of a hot, healthy lunch from the age of three to twelve or 14 years of age.” important.

Farewell at ten o’clock early
In addition, Meinl-Reisinger discussed the separation of the children at the age of ten in the AHS and secondary school, which she considers too early. However, she avoids the term community school. This gives the impression that everything is going according to “schedule F”. A school must be autonomous and be able to set priorities. In general, the NEOS want a joint school until the age of 14 or 15, followed by secondary school and only then a specialization.

Education Minister Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) accuses Beate Meinl-Reisinger of “show politics”. This became apparent, for example, with the Corona bonus only for administrators or the introduction of the new subject “digital basic education” without sufficient teacher training. She also misses the announcement from him how he sees education policy in the 21st century separately from the corona measures.

Special support in the next school year
Another aspect that Christoph Wiederkehr (NEOS), the councilor of Vienna, raised was the schoolchildren who had fled from Ukraine. The extra costs for teachers for lessons should be compensated, the newly created support hours to compensate for the learning losses in the corona pandemic should not be reduced again. The special support will also be needed next school year, it is money well invested.