Third-grader Miranda Garcia has missed the majority of the school year because of an illness, but can now attend through an unlikely tool: a robot.
“It’s good and it helps me a lot when I am too sick to go to school. I feel a part of the class,” Garcia told ABC affiliate KSAT 12.
Garcia, who attends Foster Elementary School in San Antonio, Texas, suffers from a severe immune disorder which has allowed her to attend only two weeks of school. Her teacher would conduct a home-bound visit two to three times a week to update Garcia on school work.
The San Antonio Independent School district developed this pilot program to allow the robot to act as a temporary replacement for Garcia who is missing daily classroom activities, and to allow her the class time she was originally missing.
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