Request to resign from an education minister – salzburg.ORF.at
EDUCATION
In an open letter, Minister of Education Martin Polaschek (ÖVP) of the Salzburg State Association of Parents’ Associations at Higher and Middle Schools (SLEV) called for his immediate resignation.
According to the assessment of the SLEV chairman Helmuth Schütz, the overall dramatic, but regionally different, due to the school operation due to the increasing number of corona infections “is taking this year’s central high school diploma ad absurdum”.
The parents’ association referred to concerns in this direction that had been raised several times, in the form of a statement in January and at a press conference in early March, which, however, went largely unnoticed. The direction of the Ministry of Education, “continue to hold on to mandatory oral Matura examinations” is an obvious “expression of a loss of reality”, Schütz became clear in the open letter on Sunday.
“Insistence on hasty decisions”
On behalf of the SLEV, Schütz regrets Polaschek’s persistent “insisting on premature decisions” and sees the basis for meaningful negotiations dwindling due to the Ministry of Education’s “previous refusal to talk”.
Polaschek disappointed the “ideas of an attentive and appreciative communication of an education minister with voluntary institutions such as the nationwide parents’ associations or student representatives” and was therefore asked to resign immediately.
Minister will hold an oral Matura
The open demand for resignation marks a new level of escalation in the dispute between student and parent representatives and the Ministry of Education in the “Corona-Matura” cause.
On Sunday afternoon, Polaschek announced that the corona measures in schools would be largely implemented by the Easter holidays. He wants to stick to the oral Matura – More on this in No change to CoV rules in schools.