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
.
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.”
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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)