Middle school offers karate in the afternoon

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Middle school offers karate in the afternoon

Karate on the agenda in the afternoon. Sixth-grader jennifer boxes and kicks with all her might against the punching pad held out by her karate teacher georg muller. The petite girl is sweating and breathing heavily, her face red from exertion. Concentrated, it keeps aiming at the target. The experienced children's and youth trainer spurs them on: "firm! Imagine being really pissed off!" jennifer gives it her all and is satisfied with the new school karate. "It's really great because you learn how to defend yourself", she says strained.

"The children need movement and they want to move", says supervisor carina winter. When schools are busy, they are more concentrated and quieter in class. Karate lessons are part of the all-day care program at the bad bocklet middle school. Since the beginning of the current school year, the gesellschaft zur forderung beruflicher und sozialer integration (gfi) from schweinfurt has been organizing the open all-day school. Twelve children are currently being cared for after school hours.

"The all-day school includes a communal lunch, homework supervision and alternative activities", explains principal ursula plohnke. In addition to the karate training, there is, for example, a cooperation with the traffic educators matthias kleren and dietmar domling from bad kissingen. The police officers give the schoolchildren an insight into their day-to-day work.

Currently still a trial course
At the moment martial arts is still offered as a four week trial course. However, the principal is already thinking about extending the program. "Karate training fits in well with our school concept of values education." georg muller teaches students respect, responsibility and self-control. In addition, sports are important for the development of young people. "This trains their working memory and teaches them to use their cognitive flexibility (transferring known knowledge into other contexts, to. D. Red.) to school", says plohnke. Working memory is used for temporary storage and is needed, for example, for reading, calculating and solving problems.

"Respect, discipline, courage and perseverance. The children learn something for life." georg muller sums up what he tries to pass on in his training sessions. The karate instructor runs a martial arts school in schweinfurt, offers self-defense as a rehabilitation and disability sport, and has been involved in projects with schools for two years. "In the old days, kids would go out after school and do things", he says.

Today, on the other hand, many young people stay at school until late in the afternoon. On the one hand, this affects the sporting leisure time of the children, and on the other hand, the clubs are running out of new recruits. "That's why we go to the schools", explains muller. So far, he has had a lot of positive experience with such projects, and karate has been well received. "The children want to have their training."

Escherndorf village square is a topic in the city council

The volkach city council’s schedule is being pushed through vigorously. The vacation committee, planned for 1. September, fall under the table. Likewise, the city council meeting of 15. September. On the other hand, the city council meets on 10. September, an unusual wednesday: "this is about awarding the escherndorf village square project," says mayor peter kornell.

Kornell wants to press the accelerator on this project. After all, the people of escherndorf have been waiting a long time for the realization of this project. The whole thing is not cheap: including demolition, the church forecourt, which is to have barrier-free access, will cost around half a million, estimates kornell.

The wait for the village square has already consumed a lot of patience in escherndorf. In 2009 the project was launched in connection with the renewal of the village. The plans became a long shot when the community meeting place, which had also been considered, failed in the city council after the church withdrew as a co-financier. "Too expensive," the committee found in 2012 the community center, estimated at around 400,000 euros.

The community center doesn’t exist, but in june the city council made money available for a meeting in the meeting room of the winegrowers’ hall: the city wants to invest around 140,000 euros in the project. Now it is also the turn of the forecourt at the church, which – according to the previous plans – should actually have been finished in the fall. But it will probably take until spring 2015.

Agriculture struggles with growing climate risks

In view of the growing climate risks for german farmers, grunen boss robert habeck calls for agriculture to be adapted more strongly to climate change.

Water shortages and hot temperatures are an increasingly pressing problem for farmers, "and no one can turn a blind eye to it," habeck told the deutsche presse agency. "The extreme becomes the rule. And that changes the basic assumptions on which farming has been done so far."In order to master the situation, it is high time to tackle the adaptation of agriculture to the climate crisis – both in the cultivation of plants and in animal husbandry.

For example, mixed instead of monocultures, more diverse crop rotations with plants that are resistant to heat and drought, more trees on agricultural land, different sowing and harvesting dates and more organic farming are needed, habeck said. Livestock numbers had to be reduced so that a farm only had as many animals as it could basically feed with the yield from its land. "The goal is fewer animals, but more space and good care," he said. In the summer of 2018, the feed supply for the animals was insufficient and there were emergency slaughters.

The day before, at the presentation of the harvest balance sheet, farmers’ association president joachim rukwied had drawn attention to the higher risks farmers face due to climate change. They relied on soil-conserving practices and resistant species and breeds. But he also called for government help in setting up "multi-peril insurance" to protect farmers.

The climate policy spokesman for the left in the bundestag, lorenz gosta beutin, had then demanded that the state should not leave farmers "sitting on their hands dry" any longer. In addition to emergency state aid for climate damage, climate insurance had to be subsidized. The majority of farmers could not afford the expensive insurances so far. In return, agriculture must invest even more in climate protection.

Gero hocker, the agricultural policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, had called for "decisive action" – such as the "consistent demand for digital technologies" and a tax-free risk compensation levy, which the farmers’ association has long been calling for. In addition, the approval of modern pesticides had to be accelerated and modern genetic engineering methods had to be advanced.

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