It is totally beyond me, why there hasn’t been some effort to officially establish small learning groups with amateur assistant teachers (and remote support from real ones). I am sure there are currently plenty of jobless parents that wouldn’t mind opening their home for a few neighbor children (lets say 3-5) and earn a bit of money for it.

This would have been easily doable and likely not a big risk in regards to virus spread. However given the extreme stubbornness of the German education professionals to keep the old system running, I suspect that they are afraid that such a system might be actually well liked and continued after the pandemic…