DIY education: Greek teacher creates TV classes for inmates


By AGENCY

Inmates watching a Math class on Prospathodas TV, or Trying TV. Photos: AP

Setting up a television channel from scratch isn’t the most obvious or easiest thing for a math teacher to do – especially without prior technical knowledge and for use inside a prison.

But that is exactly the task Petros Damianos, director of the school at Greece’s Avlona Special Youth Detention Center, took on so his students could access the lessons that coronavirus lockdowns cut them off from.

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