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Schoolboy swipes gran’s €10,000 life savings and shares it with classmates

It could have been an incredible act of generosity or a misguided attempt to win friends but it certainly tested even the most doting of grandmother’s love.

Published: 9 March 2017 11:39 CET
Schoolboy swipes gran's €10,000 life savings and shares it with classmates
Photo: Professor25/Depositphotos

When a ten-year-old boy from Caldes de Montbui, near Barcelona, discovered his grandmother’s stash of banknotes, he took it into school and distributed €100 notes among his classmates.

The alarm was raised after a teacher at the school noticed that several children were carrying the large denomination, a rarity in Spain and particularly unsuitable for the canteen.

They questioned the children and traced the source to the boy who had come across the money his grandfather had put aside to buy essential medical equipment.

The story came to light after the teachers at the Escola Montbui primary school created a WhatsApp group for parents asking for the money to be returned and the exchange was read on the radio programme Julia en la Onda on Onda Cero.

“This morning a fifth-form primary school pupil has distributed 100 euro notes he'd taken from his house.

'If your child has been given any of this money, please contact the school immediately so it can be returned to the pupil's family.

“More than €10,000 needs to be recovered. We ask for your utmost understanding and cooperation. This is not a joke.”

One of the parents of a child who had received some cash told the radio station: 'Yes, it's true. Unbelievable but true.'

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Bavaria plans 100 million rapid Covid tests to allow all pupils to return to school

In the southern state of Bavaria, schools have been promised 100 million self-tests starting next week so that more children can start being taught in person again. But teachers say the test strategy isn't being implemented properly.

Published: 12 March 2021 17:12 CET
Bavaria plans 100 million rapid Covid tests to allow all pupils to return to school
Children in the classroom in Bavaria. Photo:Matthias Balk/DPA

State leaders Markus Söder said on Friday that the first 11 million of the DIY tests had already arrived and would now be distributed through the state.

“It’s no good in the long run if the testing for the school is outside the school,” Söder told broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) during a visit to a school in Nuremberg.

“Contrary to what has been planned in Berlin, we’ve pre-ordered in Bavaria: for this year we have 100 million tests.”

Bavaria, Germany’s largest state in terms of size, plans to bring all children back into schools starting on Monday.

SEE ALSO: ‘The right thing to do’ – How Germany is reopening its schools

However, high coronavirus case rates mean that these plans have had to be shelved in several regions.

In Nuremberg, the state’s second largest city, primary school children have been sent back into distance learning after just a week back in the classroom.

The city announced on Friday that schools would have to close again after the 7-day incidence rose above 100 per 100,000 inhabitants.

The nearby city of Fürth closed its schools after just two days of classroom time on Wednesday, after the 7-day incidence rose to 135.

The Bavarian test strategy plans for school children to receive one test per week, while teachers have the possibility of taking two tests a week. The testing is not compulsory.

But teachers’ unions in the southern state have warned that the test capacity only exists on paper and have expressed concern that their members will become infected in the workplace.

“Our teachers are afraid of infection,” Almut Wahl, headmistress of a secondary school in Munich, told BR24.

“Officially they are allowed to be tested twice a week, we have already received a letter about this. But the tests are not there.”

BR24 reports that, contrary to promises made by the state government, teachers in many schools have still not been vaccinated, ventilation systems have not been installed in classrooms, and the test infrastructure has not been put in place.

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