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Only Child in Life and Only Student in Class


Ioanna may be an only child savoring the full attention and love of her parents but she is now the only pupil in one of the two schools of Gavdos island, near Crete.
A first-grader, Ioanna will have her teacher all to herself as well as the entire school and the yard. According to madeincreta.gr, the little girl is the only elementary school student of Gavdos this year and is well used to being alone.
Since kindergarten, Ioanna has been the only student on the island, goes to school to study but has no one in her age group for a friend. Her only friend is a 3-years-old boy who plays with her some evenings to break the monotony.
The situation isn’t new for her, but it is for her teacher, who left crowded classrooms in Thessaloniki and was appointed as teacher to the southernmost island of Greece four years ago. After her first year in Gavdos, Kyriaki Triantafyllidou applied for a position elsewhere but then decided to stay. The first year Triantafyllidou taught on Gavdos she had five students. The next two years she had only two students. This year it’s just her and Ioanna.
 
 

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