Financing construction projects - Enough equity?

What is so difficult about simply transferring the lessons held in emergency care or now in alternating teaching 1:1 to the kids sitting at home?

Simple answer - missing devices, Wi-Fi coverage and bandwidth. Next level - there are no cameras in the rooms. If there are - personal rights of the students present. Missing devices for the virtual part of the group, missing internet access, therefore equal opportunities, etc. ;)

Oh, so you're going to pay me for the private tutor? Pretty condescending of you to say that one shouldn't complain but just needs to have the money left over. There are also home builders who basically save the money for their house by going without. And of course we take it into our own hands like millions of other parents who have been homeschooling alongside their jobs for a year. That's the point, that the support from the professionals here was simply insufficient. I mean these are people who are trained to prepare our children for life. They get paid for that. Why should I now have to pay to get another professional who actually can do it? It's just like with house construction: notice of defects, two rounds of remediation, and if it still doesn't work, replacement at their expense. That's how it had to go.

Of course there are digital coordinators at schools. A friend of mine is one of them. And of course he does this alongside his teaching job, or gets time for it... Just like teachers who are responsible for the school library or the school garden.

I agree with you about the formal and legal obstacles. That can be a problem. On the other hand, it shouldn't be a problem to get [das alles von den gebeutelten Eltern] signed off.

Bandwidth.

Serious problem! The schools are now supposed to be connected to fiber optic by the end of this year. At the moment, it simply doesn't work when several teachers share the monitor for the students at home during alternating lessons or possibly also a video from THEM. Then the bandwidth immediately collapses and clogs up, so the children at home can't see anything anymore.

The willingness is there, of course. Hardware, data protection, and internet connection simply make it difficult. I come from the private sector and always tell them: You don’t care how the children manage at home. Your employer has regulated the process and deemed it good. If it doesn't work or is inefficient, then make a suggestion for improvement and otherwise, just do what you can. It's not your problem.

In the private sector, a considerable portion of employees would achieve significantly less than the teachers under the given circumstances. Simply because it is not my job to solve IT problems of my employer. If the network fails at my work, I tidy up my desk and don’t start carrying data around on USB sticks.

or gets time for it

With us, I think it’s 3x45 minutes to administer one school. Then there are one or two teachers for that. For a team of 100 employees/teachers. Look how many FTE a mid-sized company has for IT, or what its budget is. What our state deploys is completely ridiculous.

I am of the opinion that schools need a managing director and an IT department. But they have to be businesspeople and IT specialists. Not teachers. If need be, also as a central department across several schools.

If many people here complain about lazy teachers, then get yourselves a private tutor and teach your precious possession at home. You can't change other people's laziness, but not only could the teachers have foreseen that not much would change in the coming months, but also the parents. Taking initiative is not wrong.

That's a joke, right? All parental initiatives were blocked. Because of data protection and so on. And yet learning communities have been formed. For example, because of children with migration backgrounds whose parents can hardly speak German. Despite Corona! Because it was forbidden!

Yes, the opinion that schools should have received more funding by now is correct. Oh wait, they have... [Digitalpakt Schule]