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School closures have been criticized by many experts. Parents, at least those over 10 years old, still left their children at home. Most of the diocese’s elementary school children stayed home. “We have an average of eight support records,” new director Andrea Berger-Gruber reported when asked by BVZ. She was “very satisfied” with Corona’s preparation from school (see interview on page 19).
He looked different with the elementary school kids.
Twice as many kids in VS Eisenstadt
At Eisenstadt Primary School, up to 58 children were supervised at school per day, at St. Georgen Primary School up to 28, explains Principal Charlotte Toth-Kanyak. That’s about twice as many children as in the first confinement. The director does not want to speculate on the reasons, nor is she asked. “I called the parents of the children in the German class and recommended that they take the children to school. You have to be vigilant when you learn German, ”explains Toth-Kanyak. And: “The FFP2 masks that were mandatory for staff for a few weeks finally arrived on Wednesday.”
E-learning routine in Siegendorf and Neufeld
The Neue Mittelschule Siegendorf is well prepared for distance learning. “We have been working on preparing for distance learning since we started school. We didn’t want to take it off and be surprised, like in spring, ”reports NMS Siegendorf Director Rita Stenger. As a result, students are also very well prepared: “Our goal was to prepare students for online learning.” On the first day of distance education classes, 13 of 208 children were served at school. There are currently three classmates at the school, the rest teach distance classes. Stenger is happy that things have gone much better this time than when school first closed in the spring.
Distance education is also well received at NMS Neufeld. There are currently three students out of a total of 155 at the school. The rest work from home. “We are currently reaching almost all students. In the online meetings, one or two students were not present in individual classes, ”says Ursula Wallner, principal of NMS Neufeld, describing daily school life at this time. At the same time, Wallner emphasizes that this week will look at how to reach students. An online conference with teachers is used to see how students have been reached and whether it would be better for students who do not have support at home to come to school.
Purbach: almost all students at home
Purbach Middle School adheres to the closure – the first day 4 of more than 80 students attended the school. “Distance learning takes place through various channels, such as Skooly, LMS, Zoom or by email,” explains director Elisabeth Szuppin. The goal of non-location-based teaching is for each student to have daily contact with the school, that is, at least one teacher. To give everyone the opportunity to learn online, the school has also loaned end devices. “For us it is very important to offer children a basic digital education. For example, you can obtain your European computer driving license from us. So we have some tablets that we could hide, ”said Szuppin deputy Ludwig Fingerhut.
Most parents would see distance learning as a positive thing, Fingerhut continues, “because they know what it’s all about. The students are quite sad because they can’t see their friends. “
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