More lessons were canceled at Saxony's schools in the first half of the school year. Around 8.8 percent of lessons were not held regularly in the first half of the current school year, according to statistics from the Saxon Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, which were reported by several media outlets on Friday. The ministry attributes around 40,000 canceled lessons to a warning strike by teachers in November and December 2023. "Without the strike days, the proportion of lessons missed would be at the same level as in the first half of the 2022/23 school year," it said.
The proportion of lessons missed was particularly high at special schools at 14.1 percent and secondary schools at 12.9 percent. The state chairman of the education union GEW, Burkhard Naumann, told the "Leipziger Volkszeitung" newspaper: "The vicious circle of staff shortages and overload at schools continues. That's why the Free State must provide additional money for an education package."
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