They are about to board the bus to Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon. A total of 16 employees of the RSG, ready for a special ‘school trip for teachers’. At the invitation of AVROTROS, they attend the ‘preview’ of the semi -final of the Songfestival, which is broadcast live on television. Claude is during the half final battle The turn of the 13th.
Joeri Cornelisz (47) has been working at the RSG for 25 years as a mathematics and sport teacher. “In the 2019-2020 school year I got Claude in my mentor class. He was in Havo 3, was very eager to learn and we had a good click.”
‘A kind of depression’
But then Corona and closed the schools. “Lessons were given through teams. That was very difficult for him, also because he is very social. Suddenly he sat at home and he could not go anywhere. He got into a kind of depression.”
Cornelisz received several messages from his student. “With one of them I thought: this is not going well. Then I looked it up and we took a walk. We talked about anything and everything and apparently helped him very much. In retrospect he told that it was the first time he dared to talk about his feelings.”
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