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O Governo do “engenheiro” gastou 240.000 euros para pagar ao Finantial Times o destacável de 14 de Julho, numa daquelas iniciativas propagandísticas a que chama governação. Talvez por isso não tenha sobrado dinheiro para salvar a Escola de Várzea de Abrunhais (http://www.eb1-varzea-abrunhais.rcts.pt/).
Entretanto, o mesmo Finantial Times publicava esta pérola:

Only 19 children attend the primary school in Várzea de Abrunhais, a village perched on a forested hillside in northern Portugal, whose ageing population, depleted by emigration and rural flight, cultivate orchards and vineyards. In September, a bus will ferry the children eight kilometres to a new school for 200 in the town of Lamego, leaving behind their whitewashed classrooms under a modernisation programme that has already seen 2,500 schools with fewer than 20 pupils closed.
A further 900 closuresare planned. In villages like this, the divide between the poor rural interior and more affluent coast is usually most evident. According to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development figures for the mid-2000s, Portugal is the European country where income is most unevenly distributed. Before its imminent closure, however, the school in Várzea de Abrunhais has achieved international recognition, having been selected last year by Microsoft to join the company’s Pathfinder network, an elite group of 31 schools chosen from across the world for their innovative
use of new technologies.