2023-04-19 09:56:15
North Rhine-Westphalia’s school minister Dorothee Feller (CDU) apologized on Wednesday. She knows what that means for students who prepare for their exams with their own work plan, she said in Düsseldorf.
The decision to postpone the start of the Abitur exams was very difficult. She can understand that students and teachers are “really angry”, said the minister. “That’s me too.” At the moment the downloading of the Abitur exams for this Thursday is going well. The ministry was constantly in contact with the schools, said Feller.
A number of schools had already called for help on Tuesday followingnoon, as the NRW Philology Association reported to the “Aachener Zeitung”. The opposition in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament criticized the procedure and pointed out what they saw as a lack of communication from the state government. The SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament requested a special session of the school committee.
“Abi-Super-Gau”
Dilek Engin, spokeswoman for school policy for the SPD parliamentary group, wrote in a reaction that the school minister had a “super meltdown” and accused her of “catastrophic communication behavior”. The minister had disappeared for hours. Teachers and high school graduates would now have to pay for the problem. “By the way, especially the pupils of Muslim faith, who celebrate the sugar festival on Friday. And whether the announced rail strike on Friday can be guaranteed to run smoothly at all is still completely open,” Engin continued.
“Actually, they can no longer be used because confidentiality cannot be guaranteed one hundred percent,” said Engin, referring to the exam tasks. Franziska Müller-Rech, spokeswoman for school policy in the FDP parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia, was outraged by the breakdown. “What a horror! You spend weeks preparing for your Abitur – and then it falls through due to a lack of tasks,” said Müller-Rech in a written statement.
The NRW school minister said on Wednesday that students who are unable to take the exam on Friday because of the sugar festival can make up for it. The minister does not fear a data leak. Your house currently sees no reason to set new tasks on Friday. “We assume that the tasks are not burned,” said a specialist from the ministry.
“It’s an indictment”
Even a Bielefeld school does not help their own initiative: As reported to this editor, the upper school head went to a friend’s school, which was lucky enough to be able to download the tasks, and organized the tasks in this way.
Harald Willert, spokesman for the school management association NRW eV, is also outraged: “It is a sign of failure that the server crashes the first time it is loaded. That is very unfortunate for thousands of high school graduates.” It shows that data processing and digitization are still on shaky ground.
Christian Beckmann, Chairman of the State Parents’ Conference of North Rhine-Westphalia, makes a similar statement: “Imagine the uncertainty of the high school graduates the day before their first final exam – and that following the pandemic years. That’s an impertinence and there has to be a better way.”
These exams should have taken place
On Wednesday, the Abitur exams should have started all over NRW at high schools and comprehensive schools. Tests were planned in the subjects biology, chemistry, nutrition, computer science, physics and technology.
In the followingnoon, Sabine Mistler, head of the Philology Association of North Rhine-Westphalia, emphasized to the WDR that timely downloading of the exams is particularly important in these subjects. This is because a test arrangement often has to be set up in order to carry out the test. In addition, the right subject areas had to be selected.
The B solution didn’t work either
The service provider for transmitting the tasks had a second server, Feller explained on Wednesday. However, this B solution did not work either. In the fall, the download was tested smoothly with around 300 schools. Downloading was also successful for 300 schools on Tuesday followingnoon. The schools were asked to keep the exams under lock and key.
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