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Erika Sebestyén and her daughter will have a special Christmas this year. Last year, they shook a couple square feet of log cabin even on vacation, but a month ago their lives changed a lot. The country has been united for a few weeks now, and thanks to a call from a local website, his tiny house will soon be renovated, eventually having electricity.
In the spring, after the prime minister announced, overnight, a high school mother and daughter had to solve the problem of digital education because there was no computer and no electricity in the house.
The disability pension does not cover everything
Erika was able to buy the plot on the Mecsek side after working abroad for several months. He scheduled the renovation of the dilapidated house a few months later. He thought that soon he could expand the little cabin with a room, and there would even be electricity and water. But after months it became clear:
the disability pension and the family allowance will not be sufficient for this.
At that time, Erika’s daughter was studying without electricity. Like now. His only textbook is a mobile phone with which he can participate in online lessons and also try to do his homework on the small screen.
My daughter Tamara’s dream is to be a police officer, but the path to her is winding. He started secondary school in one of Pécs’s primary schools, but it was difficult for young people with a good financial background to admit him into the community. He is now in high school at another high school and is also studying a profession. You are consciously preparing for your future.
Erika boasts.
Light at the end of the tunnel
However, difficult months remain behind them. In the absence of electricity, Tamara could only study during the day. By then the phone was also getting unloaded often, and it became a daily routine to ask a neighbor to charge their phone there the next day.
Thanks to this call, the distribution box has already been mounted on the wall of the house. They are just waiting for the provider to get the license and maybe
On Christmas Eve, the candles are no longer forcibly lit, and the Christmas tree can also be decorated with light bulbs.
This is all an instructive story because, according to preliminary data from the Central Statistical Office, full-time training in secondary schools is about
Starting November 11, online education will only be available to them.
It was expected, but it causes a lot of problems.
The closing of the fall school was considered overwhelming by many. Several teachers’ unions have regularly called on the government to close educational institutions as soon as possible. In early November, Anna Komjąhy, Vice President of the Democratic Union of Teachers (PDSZ), believed that
The current situation is unsustainable. Schools must be closed for two weeks and children and teachers must return to classrooms only after the test.
Finally, Viktor Orbán, seeing a large increase in the number of infected, complied with the request of the unions, and secondary schools were closed for a week.
But the transition to digital education was not easy after the spring experience. In the villages of Cserehát, for example, many people study in secondary schools, we learned from an NGO activist:
As in the spring, the problem is that the Internet is not strong enough. Sometimes the intensity of the field disappears and they do not see or hear the teacher well for a few minutes. It is difficult to learn like this.
To resolve the situation, they went to the service provider, where they seem to solve the problem in no time. Also, it seems that you don’t even have to pay for the service. After all, the fixed internet service will be free for thirty days for families where high school students study full time, Viktor Viktor Orbán announced in his Facebook video on Saturday.
It is also a typical problem in the Klára Csendi family of Rudabánya. However, your problem is more difficult to solve because you do not even depend on the service providers. With us, the enlightenment is resolved, however
there is no tablet or computer.
Klara and her children studied on a smartphone in spring. There was a moment when I ran out of data from the internet package, they called the school and the next day they were already printing the teaching material in an envelope along with the homework. Now her eldest daughter is affected by studying at home, who is studying at a vocational high school.
The teachers help her as much as they can, but I don’t know what to say to her with homework. And in the German house, he would certainly like it because he doesn’t like it.
The problem is not unique. In the spring, almost all parents were able to prove themselves as educators. And while the elementary school curriculum only went to parents, they are often taught the lesson of high school assignments as well.
Who fails is left behind
This is also confirmed by the survey conducted in the spring.
In the counties of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, one third of the students have no or very limited access to online distance education, while in the counties of Budapest and Győr-Moson-Sopron this ratio is only one tenth.
– It stands out in the analysis of the Institute of Economics of the Research Center of Economics and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which examined the difficulty of the measures taken in education due to the coronavirus epidemic for families living in the poorer conditions.
According to the study, the delay can be felt even in elementary school. In sixth and eighth grade, more than 40 percent of students who were not available online danced on the brink of failure, for example, in math.
Children who have been on the brink of failure in the past are unlikely to be able to meet the end-of-year study requirements without online education and active parental assistance.
– can be read in the KRTK KTI analysis. The study points out that a possible failure creates an unacceptable backwardness for students, and if it is massive, it preserves social disparities and places those regions in a difficult position. Therefore, it is also socially important that disadvantaged children have access to online education.
Fortunately, there is help
Foundations and NGOs are working to improve the situation. In the spring, a dairy company delivered more than 200 new tablets to schoolchildren in need. The company’s donations went to Alsózsolca in Borsod, Baktalórántháza in Szabolcs and Mátészalka.
A mobile phone operator in the southern part of the country has contributed to the digital education of students in micro-regional schools. In the counties of Békés and Csongrád-Csanád, it distributed 270 tablets and 50 laptops
delivered digital education to nearly 3,000 students and 400 educators.
In addition to primary schools, professional secondary schools and elementary schools also benefited from the donation. The schools received the tools between June and October, so most of them could be used by students and teachers beginning with the September school year.
Top image: Volunteers hold a development session for children living in extreme poverty in Gyöngyöspata. MTI Photo: Zoltán Balogh
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