With the ongoing corona pandemic, schoolchildren are facing completely new challenges. In addition to distance learning and the unusual situation of only consuming the learning materials digitally, some of the students do not have the necessary technical infrastructure in their own four walls. In addition to an adequate internet connection, this also includes a suitable device. For this reason, schools use the federal funding program to purchase notebooks. However, as can now be seen in a report by the Handelsblatt, only half of the school authorities have so far used the said program. As a result, just 14% of the students have received a device.

The teaching staff poses a further challenge. Here 63% of the organizations stated that the teachers were almost overwhelmed, both in terms of pedagogical and teaching staff technical implementation of digital learning content. Sebastian Weitzel, member of the Rednet management, pointed out that various further training courses are required here in order to adequately prepare the teachers for comprehensive distance learning.

Thus, a renewed lockdown should not only be the Confront students with further challenges. The school authorities also seem to be largely overwhelmed with the implementation at the moment, which has a negative effect on the education of adolescents. There is an acute need for action here and schools need further support from the federal and state governments. It remains to be seen whether another funding program will be launched in the future to address this issue. However, it will take some time before the level will catch up with the concept of the well-known frontal teaching.