Público：Online classes, uncertain exams, a different summer. What is it like to finish high school in covid-19?
date：2020-04-08 14:57author：小编source：Públicoviews：
This is an interview with five middle school students (17 years old) from all over Portugal to understand how they experienced the COVID-19 crisis and the impact on life and school.
Catarina Gomes, a student of the Department of Social Economics from Escola Secundária de Penafiel (school name):
Catarina Gomes, a student of the Department of Social Economics from Escola Secundária de Penafiel (school name):
- "I am very disappointed that both the graduation ball and the trip were cancelled."
- "Exams are always fair to everyone. Students experience the same situation and the same access to knowledge."
Carolina Morganheira, a visual arts student from Escola Secundária de Vendas Novas (school name):
- "I can't meet the friends I made appointments with. I am all forced to cancel the plan."
- "The process of teaching online is confusing. I will definitely spend at least half an hour to successfully enter the course channel. Some classmates even enter at the last minute."
- "Because I haven't decided where to go in the future, for me, the more time I have, the better."
Afonso Almeida, a visual arts student from Escola Secundária Diogo de Gouveia (school name):
- "In the course of the past few days, all the classes are talking about the same topic-will the course be changed to online courses? Will the national exams be carried out as scheduled, postponed or cancelled?
- "This is the first time I have my own plan. I want to travel, I want to work, but now it seems I have to cancel. I am also worried about future air traffic control."
Sofia Domingues, a science and technology student from Escola Secundária Júlio Dinis (school name):
- "Because it is not possible to supervise the exam face to face, many teachers changed the exam assessment into a homework format. Out of the teachers' understanding and the feasibility of the assessment, we were not impacted much."
- "We have a class of 30 people, (before being affected by the epidemic) we even have to find chairs and bring them to the classroom."
- "In Ovar (that has been declared to be in a "public disaster" situation), people's lives are not easy. School facilities are limited, and no space or time-based isolation can be achieved at school. Remote teaching must be adopted."
- The pilot project brought confusion: Her classmates are still taking physical education classes and their grades are not included in the higher education enrollment standards (due to the epidemic); However, the experimental school she studied in evaluated the sports performance last year (the eleventh grade). She believes this is an unequal treatment: "These new regulations have affected my access to higher education. "The school said that they were still in a state where "no response could be made."
Nuno Barbosa from the language and humanities major of Escola Básica e Secundária Bento Rodrigues (school name):
- "Personally, I prefer to online classes. Although currently in my area, face-to-face teaching is still one of the options."
- "Some of my classmates cannot use computers and the Internet, and the school cannot provide enough equipment to support all students."
- "I am still reviewing the content of the exam and waiting for the news (whether the national exam is going on schedule)."
- "I want to go to Porto to study management anyway, no matter how the schedule may change."
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