Today in "What can I do to earn the hatred of voters, present and future?", president of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble, put forward the idea of making the Summer Holidays of Germany shorter.
The problem with that idea is that the students have continued their studies and homework home, so in effect they were just homeschooled. This is just an attempt to prevent the idea of homeschooling taking root in the citizens' minds. It would also serve as a precedent to make summer holidays shorter again, and again, until they are suspended permanently.
Die Sommerferien verkürzen, um den wegen der Corona-Pandemie ausgefallenen Unterricht teilweise nachzuholen - klingt eigentlich plausibel. Das findet auch ...
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Bundestagspräsident Schäuble schlägt eine Verkürzung der Sommerferien vor. Dabei geht es auch um die Entlastung der Eltern.
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Overall, that overripe turd really should think beyond the economy if he wants his party to stay in power.