The 17-year-old Selina, who had to give her presentation in the garden because of the bad internet, is not an isolated case.
After Digital Minister Andreas Scheuer offered help to the student, other Upper Bavaria also hope for support with digital lessons.
Andreas Scheuer got his hands on something: the Federal Minister of Transport, who is also responsible for digital infrastructure by virtue of his office, read about the case of 17-year-old Selina Seebauer from Vierkirchen (Dachau district), who gave her English lecture in the snowstorm outside in the garden had to keep - the internet is too bad in the house.
Scheuer spontaneously offered help.
Small problem: Selina is not the only student (almost) without a network.
Three examples from Upper Bavaria calling for Scheuer.
Bruckmühler school principal: Worry about the alternating lessons
Bruckmühl
- Walter Baier heads the Bruckmühl high school (Rosenheim district), a school with 750 pupils, but without a network.
Yes, there is still something like that.
A maximum of one or two teachers can send their live lessons from the school to the students' rooms.
Try more, everything collapses.
The teachers have received strict instructions to stay at home and hold digital lessons at home from their private connections.
That works quite well now.
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Sent the teachers home: school principal Walter Baier from Bruckmühl.
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But as of February 1st, the school could have a problem.
Then the high school graduates should come back to school, alternating between one half and the other half of the class every day.
The teachers would then offer alternating lessons in the classrooms - half of them are in front of them in the classroom, the other half follow the lessons on their monitors at home.
This is how the Ministry of Culture envisions it in theory.
In practice it won't work because not a dozen teachers can stream at the same time.
The other students in grades 5 to 11 will then only be able to receive digital lessons sporadically.
Because a subject teacher who, for example, has a high school diploma in the first lesson, can hardly go home to the second lesson for class 6b.
“So we'll have to make do with work orders,” says Baier.
The Rosenheim district office confirms that the situation is "in fact not optimal".
The order to connect to the fiber optic network had already been placed last year.
"It is planned that the construction work will be carried out in the second quarter of 2021."
Family from Gmund: "Have invested almost 5000 euros"
Gmund
- Steffi Hafner lives in Schmerold-Holzschleife, a hamlet near Gmund (Miesbach district).
“We invested almost 5,000 euros so that our sons can take part in digital lessons,” she reports.
A second laptop was needed, a printer, but above all a Gigacube amplifier from Vodafone.
He is now on the balcony, wrapped in a towel because of the moisture. Cables lead into the rooms of the sons Vitus (13) and Quirin (12) so that they can follow the digital school lessons at Miesbach secondary school and grammar school.
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Internet brand self-made: From the Vodafone Gigacube, which must be on the balcony, cables lead through the tilted windows to the sons' room.
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Actually, the Hafners would like a regular fiber optic connection from Telekom.
Despite many attempts, nothing has come of it so far.
One problem: The hamlet belongs to Gmund in terms of local law, but the telephone network to Miesbach.
“I'm happy for the student from Vierkirchen that she is now receiving a fiber optic cable.
But we would also like it, ”says Steffi Hafner.
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No broadband connection in Peißenberg: sons are "outsourced" for learning
Peißenberg
- "Dear Mr. Scheuer, after I heard about your 'immediate help' for the Seebauer family from Vierkirchen, I am now trying my luck directly with you on behalf of my family" - this is how Kerstin Härtle's letter to the Federal Minister of Internet begins.
The Härtles live with their farm and attached carpentry in the outer area of Peißenberg (Weilheim-Schongau district).
The family has been trying to get a fiber optic connection since 2017 - so far in vain.
"We have data rates of 6 to 8 Mbit in the download", says Kerstin Härtle.
That is not enough for the two sons: Son Quirin is studying, but is currently relegated to pure online teaching.
The son Elias tries the BOS, currently only in digital lessons.
At least that's the theory.
When the father goes online for his joinery, everything collapses.
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Suspended: Kerstin Härtle and son Elias have massive internet problems.
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In practice, both sons have to be “outsourced” to friends or to grandma and grandpa.
Kerstin Härtle hopes that Scheuer can help here too.
"It is also important to us that we get an underground supply," she emphasizes.
Because the existing telephone overhead line has often been cut off by careless truck drivers.
