The German teachers ‘ Association fears for the event of a permanent switch to summer time health dangers for students. “The probability for sleep and learning problems, depression, and Diabetes is shown to increase significantly,” said President Heinz-Peter Meidinger on Tuesday in Berlin. He called on the government to prevent the potential introduction of permanent daylight saving time in Germany.
Meidinger also referred to the increasing accident risks, because millions of students would then have to “take two months longer in total darkness, your morning journey to school”. In the EU, is working on the abolition of the time change that occurs twice a year. Probably at the end of March, the EU will vote in Parliament about it. Negotiations with the member States, but still.
The Greens called for a later school start, should be abolished the time change as planned until 2021. “The countries should now consider, urgently, to enable, at least in secondary schools, a later start of the lesson”, said the Chairman of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia, Felix Banaszak, the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Wednesday). “Otherwise, the school children sit up to the big break in the darkness.”
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In the case of a permanent summer time, the sun in the Winter was only around 9.30 am. “Especially young people in puberty have a natural desire to sleep, the concentrated Work so early in the morning makes it difficult,” he said. Therefore, the lessons should begin at least an hour later. “Many parents experience, how difficult it is for their children, early in the morning to get up and start teaching,” described the state Chairman. This applies especially if the distance to school from the long bus rides. Banaszak pointed at the same time, but also on problems that could arise for working parents in case of a later school start. (AFP, epd)
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