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The MAmost of them precarious, almost half “fragile”, all of them very worried. And they are right, if even the Deputy Minister of Health, Pierpaolo Sileri, says: “We risk that teachers spend more time enforcing the rules than teaching them. It will be an arduous task. Of course, no one knows better than they do that to force children to wear the butscherina during the lessons will be impossible. That social gatherings will be on the agenda and that the occurrence of outbreaks within schools is not a probability, but a certainty.
And so the protest starts from Veneto, destined to expand, about the health risks associated with going back to school. Hundreds of professors who have already asked not to return to the chair as “fragile workers”, therefore more exposed to the contagion of Covid: more than 55 years, perhaps with asthma and allergies, or with chronic diseases, or with chemotherapy cycles. in progress.
Governor Luca Zaia raises his hand: “I am also convinced that people with health problems should avoid any type of meeting,” he explains, “but that is not our responsibility, at least until we have autonomy.”
The government has so far ignored the problem, despite the fact that 40% of our faculty, some 400,000 people, are over 55 years old and teachers over 62 are 170,000. Last April, Inail had published a document that included all female workers over 55 in the category of “fragile” subjects. They were provided with “exceptional health surveillance”, assured by the employer, with the possibility of being considered temporarily unsuitable for the service and, therefore, replaced. However, there is no trace of these attentions in the latest guidelines of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità on the resumption of the school.
“It is a very complicated situation, we have asked several times for clarification – says Maddalena Gissi, secretary of the CISL School – because it leaves these teachers unprotected and opens more unknowns about the resumption of the lessons.”
For example, older tenured professors, to stay at home, could still opt for the disease, finding a doctor willing to certify their “frailty”. “And then we will look for a substitute, a precarious one that perhaps is greater than the colleague that replaces, because that is the reality”, continues Gissi, “we need a regulatory intervention to determine how these professors are handled”. Not to mention that in the same situation there are also thousands of janitors and administrative assistants, the latter now excluded from the smart work regime, which instead continues for other public employees.
See vIf “fragile” teachers are lacking, unexpected staff gaps could arise, right at the time, rather than trying to strengthen school staff. Although the unions have already raised doubts about the possibility of effectively hiring 85 thousand new teachers, as announced by the Minister of Education Azzolina: “It is not a problem of money, which can reachnno, but the availability of the necessary figures in the rankings – explains Gissi – the first data are clear, for example in Milan the expected 3 thousand hiring of support teachers will not be able to materialize, because there are not, as well as there are no teachers of scientific subjects “. In short, except for miracles,” we will not exceed 30% of the expected recruitment. “And as always, it will be up to the most precarious to maintain the school year. According to an estimate by the Flc Cgil, the necessary substitutes will be more than 200 thousand.
