Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - From the 2023/2024 school year, schools in Hesse will be systematically recorded if a lesson is canceled due to a teacher being ill. A project initiated in 2019 was suspended in spring 2020 due to the corona pandemic, but is now running again, according to a response from the Ministry of Education to a request from AfD member of parliament Rolf Kahnt. The system should provide meaningful figures on how schools deal with lessons that cannot be taught as planned.

The ministry explained that an easy-to-use recording format had been developed that could be accessed via the teacher and student database. "The system has already been tested with some schools." The feedback and information on this test was incorporated into an optimized IT application.

As a next step, the system will be tested in an extended sample, "so that the mandatory survey at all schools can probably begin in the 2023/24 school year". The extent of the absence of lessons has been the subject of discussions in Hesse for years.