Life Over The Air
Ever heard of the School of the Air? It's an Australian thing, from deep within the Australian outback. A peculiar and quite unusual one at that, until recently.
Twenty years ago, our school teacher gave us an article. On some other children's lives in a country far, far away: Australia.
They lived in huge farms, separated by miles and miles of road, in the middle of big uninhabited landscapes: the Australian Bush.
Everyday, they would wake up, eat breakfast, clean up, dress up, just like we did, and get ready for school. Just like us.
There was no school to go to. The children were just too far apart for such a place to make any sense. There was no school to go to, and yet they were all part of a classroom, with a teacher, just like we did.
Every morning, they would all convene in their own homes, and class would begin. Over the radio.
Halfway across the world, children so far apart they barely ever saw each other, went to school together.
