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A 12-year-old student from Serapicos, in Vimioso, travels more than a kilometer several times a day to attend classes “online” in the van that her father parks at a high point in town to pick up a hammock.
“Even when I reach the highest points, in addition to the cold that enters my dad’s truck, the connection always drops and that is why I lose a lot of material, because I cannot listen to the teachers,” he described Lusa Leonor, who He is in 7th year.
The student has to adjust to her father’s work in agriculture, so that the two can earn income from the day and travel, trying to maintain balance and concentration through the “complicated” task of distance learning in that village of the municipality of Vimioso. , district of Bragança, where there is a lack of Internet coverage for the different national operators.
“I can’t do the jobs that are scheduled for me, because I can’t listen to the teachers in good condition. Besides this problem, I have to travel four or five times a day to each of the points in town where I can get a network , which is very exhausting, stressful and complicated ”, stressed the student from Grupo Escolar Vimioso.
Leonor indicates that many times it is her colleagues who send her jobs due to various failures in the internet connection.
Leonor Miranda is considered by her teachers as a good student and told Lusa that she gets up very early and has to travel about a kilometer from her house, until she gets an internet network, in the highest points of the town where she is. . lives, to be able to follow the classes at a distance.
In the town of Serapicos, Trás-os-Montes, there are two more 1st cycle students who are in the same circumstances.
Vitor Miranda, Leonor’s father, explains that he has to move several times to reconcile his work in agriculture with his daughter’s studies, “which is sometimes not an easy task.”
“My daughter has to leave the comfort of my home and where she could be more focused on her studies, but the poor quality of the internet connection does not allow it, which causes us great family problems,” he emphasized.
According to Vitor Miranda, with the rigor of winter and the rain of recent days, “it is not easy to study.”
“I kept trying to find an alternative at her aunt’s house, but since she has young daughters, the situation is even more complicated for Leonor, so she walks with me in the truck where space is not abundant,” he said.
Young Leonor’s father said that this situation changed his professional life, because he has a few hundred head of cattle and crops and these tasks also require a lot of attention and work.
For the director of the Vimioso School Association (AEV), Ana Paula Falcão, the girl is very sad because she is an excellent student.
“This situation is shameful, because Leonor is an excellent student. Having to go looking for a mobile network to connect to the Internet and many times not being able to attend classes, is without a doubt a great sadness for me. The girl. And we, the director of the schools, were not unaware of this situation ”, explained the teacher.
AEV has 229 students studying until the 9th year of schooling, since to continue their studies they have to move to other municipalities and
On Monday, students from 1st to 12th year resumed teaching through distance education.
In total, there are about 1.2 million students who are forced to exchange classrooms for their homes indefinitely.Almost a year later, in March, the Government closed schools and implemented distance education to contain the covid-19 pandemic.
In Portugal, 14,885 people died out of 778,369 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
Lusa Agency
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