Due to storm damage

School destroyed by storm: lessons in the Kurhaus

Mario is in third grade - the school year went differently than expected for him.(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz)

The St. Radegund elementary school in Styria is not coming out of its bad luck streak. After the old school building was destroyed by flooding three months ago, the container school lost its roof at the weekend. Nine-year-old Mario talks about lessons in the Kurhaus.

Wednesday morning in St. Radegund near Graz: children stream into the center of the weather-beaten village at the foot of the Schöckl from all sides. But their path leads them past the actual school building - and instead into the Kurhaus a few hundred meters away. Among them is eight-year-old Mario - a boy with blond hair and a poison green school bag. "I'd rather go to the real school," he says. But unfortunately that's not possible at the moment.