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“Still joking”: Selina (17) has to give a presentation in the snowstorm - the minister's reaction makes father angry

2021-01-23T14:46:46.308Z


Selina Seebauer will not forget this school lesson for her entire life: Because she has poor reception in the house, she gave a presentation in the garden via video conference - thickly wrapped up in snowfall.


Selina Seebauer will not forget this school lesson for her entire life: Because she has poor reception in the house, she gave a presentation in the garden via video conference - thickly wrapped up in snowfall.

Update from January 21, 7:02 p.m.:

The story of the 17-year-old student

Selina Seebauer from Vierkirchen

quickly made waves.

So her problem with the bad internet connection even got through to Berlin.

And where her father had not received an answer from the

CSU

or Minister of Education

Michael Piazolo

, the student now suddenly receives support from an unexpected direction.

When the 17-year-old answered the phone on Thursday, none other than

Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer was

on the line.

The CSU politician is also the Federal Minister for Digital Infrastructure.

He now assured the family and with it the whole place that they would take care of a better

internet connection

.

"Mr.

Scheuer

just called, that's really strange," said the 17-year-old.

“He was extremely well informed about where the cables are laid in our place, where the network is and where not.” Just a few minutes after the phone call, the

Internet provider

answered and promised to lay the connections by Monday at the latest.

The problem had existed for years, according to Selina's father Christian Seebauer.

Technicians

kept dropping by, but nothing had changed.

"We hardly have internet, not even with our mobile phones." Since

everyone worked and had to study at home

during the

Corona crisis

, it was particularly bad.

But thanks to

Scheuer's offer

, that should change soon.

Corona in Bavaria: the schoolgirl has poor reception - and has to give a presentation outside in the snow

(Initial report)

Vierkirchen -

Hardly any

student has

ever

experienced

a

lesson like

this

: Selina Seebauer (17) sat

in a chair

in the

garden of

her parents' house in Vierkirchen in a corner near the hedge

last Monday exactly at 8.15 a.m.

In front of her

laptop

and cell phone, the

snowflakes

danced above her

.

The

prospective high school graduate

, who is

attending

the 13th grade of the municipal technical college (FOS) for design in Munich-Giesing, gave

a

lecture in English

in a thick winter jacket, hat, scarf and gloves via

mobile phone and video

link

.

At the other end of the line,

teacher

Andrea Niedermair

listened

attentively.

The fact that the extremely

unusual home lessons

took place is due to the

poor internet connection

in the Seebauer's house.

According to Mayor Harald Dirlenbach

,

Vierkirchen

is

“95 percent supplied with fast Internet”, but “we

hardly have a network

in our house

, only a bar is in the basement.

But you can't do a

video conference with

it, ”assures Selina Seebauer.

Homeschooling in Vierkirchen / Dachau: schoolgirl gives a presentation outside in the snow

Telekom is

responsible

for connecting the Seebauers

.

Despite registration, the mobile phone giant has not yet fully connected the family.

In addition, her father Christian Seebauer works as a freelance web designer, mother Conny and her 15-year-old sister

do

home office or

homeschooling

, which puts additional strain on the management.

The family only has sufficiently

stable internet

in the garden by the hedge

.

The problem - besides the bad internet - from Selina was that the

presentation

with regard to this year's

Abitur is

an important part of

what is known

as short-time work “and a written presentation is not possible,” said the 17-year-old.

And

Selina Seebauer didn't want to go

to

friends

or classmates with a better internet connection, after all, she adheres to the prescribed contact rules, especially since her grandparents live in the house in Vierkirchen.

Lockdown in Vierkirchen / Dachau: The student only has stable internet on the garden hedge

English

teacher

Andrea Niedermair finally came up with the idea of

unusual “gardening”

.

“As a teacher you have to be creative right now,” she says.

“I made jokes with my teacher, but then I went out,” adds Selina Seebauer.

Now it is the case that

both

teachers and pupils

at the

municipal college for design

are “well equipped”, says Niedermair.

Much better than in many other schools.

"Headmaster Helmut Schmid organized it great," said Andrea Niedermair.

The

FOS was provided with iPads and MacBooks

via the city of Munich

.

The school in turn lends the computers to teachers and pupils in need.

Communication takes place via the

Microsoft Teams

online platform

, "and it runs smoothly," says teacher Niedermair.

After homeschooling in the garden: father accuses Söder government

Andrea Niedermair assessed the

extraordinary lecture of

her protégé in the snowstorm with the very good grade of two.

“I'm super satisfied with that,” says Selina, “because English is generally not my best subject.” In terms of toughening up, she deserved a straight top.

SELINA'S FATHER CRITISES PIAZOLO AND CSU UPPER BAVARIA

"It can't be that they don't even answer"

As creative and ultimately successful as the

lesson

for his daughter Selina

outside in the garden

in the

snowstorm

may have been, for father Christian Seebauer it can only have been a one-time thing.

Therefore, the father informed Bavaria's

Minister of Education Michael Piazolo

(Free Voters) and the CSU Upper Bavaria via email and Facebook of his daughter's report.

The reaction of the politicians was more than disappointing for the web designer.

The CSU did not answer at all until yesterday.

The minister also showed

no reaction

via

Facebook

.

The Ministry of Culture only sent "a text module" by email, according to Seebauer, that is, an automatic standard letter without a signature.

It says succinctly: “We ask (...) for your understanding that we are currently unable to answer the enormous number of letters individually.

If you have any

questions about the individual

school situation of

your child, please trust the respective

teachers

.

“I already know that Piazolo and the ministry have a lot to do, but it cannot be that they just leave students and parents out in the rain and don't even answer.”

Zim

Five-year-old Isabella from Karlsfeld, on the other hand, suffers from a rare lung disease and needs around-the-clock care.

Yet the market for critical care workers has been swept empty.

And Angelika Weber from Weichs and Dörte Dierksen from Wurster North Sea coast have been writing letters to each other for 50 years.

However, the two have never met.

(

zim)

Source: merkur

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